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Ben (Robert Benjamin) Norris (1910-2006) Landscape with Norfolk Pines image 1
Ben (Robert Benjamin) Norris (1910-2006) Landscape with Norfolk Pines image 2
DESCENDED IN THE FAMILY OF THE ARTIST
Lot 181

Ben
(Robert Benjamin) Norris (1910-2006)
Landscape with Norfolk Pines

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$1,200 - US$1,800

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Ben (Robert Benjamin) Norris (1910-2006)

Landscape with Norfolk Pines
signed and dated 'Ben Norris 1945' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
sheet size 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (34.3 x 52.0 cm)
Executed in 1945.

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Provenance
By descent in the family of the artist.

N.B.
Robert Benjamin Norris was born in southern California and studied at Pomona College, Harvard, and the Sorbonne. He painted both throughout California and in Hawaii, where he moved in 1936. He became Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Hawaii after World War II.

Norris's work was greatly influenced by the abstraction and surrealism of artists like Josef Albers and Max Ernst, as well as by Eastern and Quaker spirituality. He was best known for his watercolor works and, despite his being located primarily in Hawaii, identified for his whole career as a member of the Southern California Watercolor School. His landscapes of southern California and Hawaii are heavily atmospheric and take on an almost abstract character in their fluid strokes and rich colors, qualities that are epitomized in the present work.

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