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Yankee Flame
1975 · colotype
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ben Schonzeit
Artist
WA-00029342
PaintingRealism
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
8
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0
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70%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Gold
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978–1979
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Prints: Acquisitions, 1973�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
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.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Artworks (3)
Artwork sources (2)
3 published of 5 catalogued · 2 with image
- MoMA2 publishedof 4 catalogued2 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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1 entries · 1 sources
- 1975 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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