Ben Soltys - Salerno Beach Italy

Salerno Beach, Italy

In Salerno Beach, Ben Soltys depicts this Southern Italian city by deploying strong areas of line and tone tending towards abstraction. This original watercolor was exhibited at the Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City, and bears their tag on the verso. It is painted on archival, pure rag paper with full margins, signed and dated by the Soltys Salerno Beach, Italy is a fine, original example of the landscape art created by the American artist, Benedict Soltys, also known as 'Ben Soltys'.

Original Watercolor by Benedict Soltys 'Ben Soltys'.

Salerno Beach Itlay by Benedict Soltys - Ben Soltys

Salerno Beach, Italy

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Benedict Soltys 'Ben Soltys' (Born, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911 - Died, Erie Pennsylvania, 2004)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date		-
01-		Landscape (Abstract Composition) by Ben Soltys	Original Pastel Drawing	1956	Signed and dated "Ben Soltys -56" by Benedict Soltys to the lower right.	Available
02.-		Salerno Beach, Italy by Ben Soltys	Original Watercolor	1951	Signed and dated "Ben Soltys -51" by Benedict Soltys to the lower right.	Sold
03.-		Three WWII Drawings, the North Africa Campaign by Ben Soltys	Three Original Conte Drawings	1943	"A View of a Village, Tunisia" is signed, "Sgt. Soltys, July '43', and entitled, "Tunisia, North Africa. "Military Encampment, "Tunisia" is signed, "Soltys" and "Road Scene, Tunisia", is signed, "Soltys" and annotated "Tunisia N. A. (North Africa). All three of these original drawings are on a shiny wove paper.	Sold

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Title:	Salerno Beach, Italy
Artist:	Soltys, Benedict 'Ben Soltys' (Born, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911 - Died, Erie Pennsylvania, 2004)
Date:	1951
Medium:	Original Watercolor
Note:	Benedict Soltys 'Ben Soltys': Born in Cleveland, Benedict Soltys received his artistic training there. During the Second World War he served as a sergeant in the United States Army (map making division) and saw action in both North Africa and Italy. In both the North African and Italian campaigns he was under the command of General Dwight David Eisenhower.
	After the war, Benedict Soltys gained employment as a lithographer for Diamond International in Erie, Pennsylvania. During this period he exhibited his art in Cleveland, New York and elsewhere.
Provenance:	This original watercolor of Salerno Beach, Italy was Formerly in the collection of the Associated American Artists, New York. Since its creation in the mid 1930's the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and lithographs of no less stature during the years following the Second World War as contributing artists included Robert Bero, David Shapiro, Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, James Kearns, Gregory Masurovsky, Jack Coughlin and Sidney Chafetz. Besides publishing art, the A.A.A. also ran a large gallery on Fifth Avenue where important paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints were sold.
	Ben Soltys's Salerno Beach bears the A.A.A. gallery tag on the verso. It contains the following information; From the Galleries of Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Artist - Ben Soltys. Title - Salerno Beach. Medium - wc (watercolor). Price - $40. The verso also contains another watercolor (a view of a town). The artist has scribbled a pencil line through this image and written, 'Old Work'.
Reference:	Information is provided courtesy of the artist's son, Gregory Benedict Soltys.
Size:	14 X 20 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Painted on archival, pure rag paper and with full margins. Signed and dated by the artist to the lower right and containing the aforementioned information on the verso. In fine condition throughout without a trace of light toning or discoloration. Altogether Salerno Beach represents a prime example of the landscape art of Benedict Soltys 'Ben Soltys'.
Subject:	Salerno Beach, original watercolor, Benedict Soltys, Associated American Artists, Southern Italian city, Italy.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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