#14 • Barton Benes

Part of NDMOA: 29th Annual Autumn Art Auction (live auction by AcrePro )

Starting at $2,000.00

Status: Available

Lot 14 Barton Benes New York, New York (1942–2012) Ossuary, 2001 Screenprint, ed 40/40 29 x 34 inches $3,000 - $5,000 Barton Lidicé Beneš was born in Westwood, New Jersey, November 16, 1942, and educated in the early 1960s at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Beneš became internationally known in the 1980s as a “money artist” when he used recycled currency as a collage medium on sculptural and flat forms. In 1989, Beneš had his first solo show in North Dakota as part of the grand opening of the North Dakota Museum of Art in its new home, a renovated 1907 gymnasium on the campus of the University of North Dakota. Later in life, Barton began making “Museum Pieces,” displays of collectible objects (often belonging to well-known personalities) and relics, which he mounted, labeled, and placed in museum-like containers. The North Dakota Museum of Art’s Donor Wall, created by Barton, exemplifies this style.