About The Artist:
Thomas W. Benton
Thomas Whelan Benton was born in Oakland, California on November16, 1930. He graduated from Glendale High School and attended Glendale Junior College briefly before entering the Navy. In the Navy he served aboard a ship providing support for the Korean War. After being discharged in 1953, Tom used the G.I. Bill to pay for his tuition for a degree in architecture at the University of Southern California. After graduating, Tom spent a brief time...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.