"Bridge Construction, Saturday Evening Post cover" Lot no. 3185
By Benjamin Prins (1902-1980)
1957 (Estimated)
29.00" x 26.00;" Framed 38.50" x 35.00"
Gouache on Board
Signed Lower Left
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Bridge Construction, Saturday Evening Post cover, March 9, 1957
Framed under glass. Framed Dimensions 38.5" x 35"
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Benjamin Kimberly Paris was born in Leiden, Holland in 1902. Prins studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and Art Students League. Most of his career was spent in Wilton, Connecticut. His illustrations appeared on the covers of Saturday Evening Post and in McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others.
He died in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1980.
- Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
- death information courtesy of the artist's family
- Biography from the Archives of askART