Ben Messick - Hardcover Original Watercolors and abstract and non-objective watercolors

and abstract and non-objective watercolors

served as president of the American Watercolor Society for seven years

And the limp arm just around the corner

Los Angeles

Collier Canyon Ravine

Ben Messick - Hardcover Original Watercolors and abstract and non-objective watercolors90 pages, by James R. Lafferty, Sr. 51 color illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations Hardcover $49. 00 This book is the definitive biography of rediscovered artist Benjamin Newton Messick, 1891 1981. Messick was one of America's most important Scene painters and Modernists of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. His paintings and prints have been shown in over four hundred exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Annual in 1927; the Carnegie Institute, 1941;