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Yankee Flame
1975 · colotype
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ben Schonzeit
Artist
PaintingRealism
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2
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3
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8
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978–1979
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Prints: Acquisitions, 1973�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
About
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Ben Schonzeit is an American painter whose practice moves fluidly between photorealism and abstraction, working across shifting scales in acrylic and oil. His distinctive approach to light, surface texture, and spatial ambiguity deliberately blurs the threshold between representation and non-objective painting. Born in 1942, Schonzeit's work engages the postwar expansion of materials and technical possibility in American painting.
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Museum of Modern Art
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