[Benton Spruance collection] -- 1928-1968.

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[Benton Spruance collection] -- 1928-1968.

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This is a collection of works by Benton Spruance. Works include portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, and allegorical and biblical themes in a variety of media including lithographs, etchings, drypoints, aquatints, woodcuts, monotypes, drawings, and pastels. The collection also includes a copy of Moby Dick, the Passion of Ahab, a set of 26 lithographs by Spruance with excerpts from the novel; sets of proofs of several works by Spruance; architectural plans and six gouaches for a mural installed in the Holmsburg House of Detention, 1960; and several photographs of the artist at work.

2.6 linear feet

Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967

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Benton Spruance was an American artist and educator. Born and educated in Philadelphia, he displayed an early aptitude for graphic sketching. He became a pioneer in color lithography, and is remembered as an expert technician with an artistic eye; he was also an accomplished painter. His subject matter generally ranged through social, religious, and mythological subjects, as well as landscapes. He also had a long career in education, chiefly at Beaver College and the Philadelphia College of Art,...

Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection

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