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[[File:Gerrit Beneker at easel 1915.jpg|thumb|Gerrit Beneker at his easel in 1915]] |
[[File:Gerrit Beneker at easel 1915.jpg|thumb|Gerrit Beneker at his easel in 1915]] |
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[[File:Portrait of Reinhart Geiger, locomotive engineer, by Gerrit A. Beneker dl full size.jpg | thumb|right|Portrait of Reinhart Geiger, locomotive engineer]] |
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'''Gerrit Albertus Beneker''' (January 26, 1882 – October 23, 1934) was an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of industrial scenes and for his poster work in [[World War I]]. |
'''Gerrit Albertus Beneker''' (January 26, 1882 – October 23, 1934) was an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of industrial scenes and for his poster work in [[World War I]]. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Beneker was born on January 26, 1882 in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], the son of Bartel Albertus Beneker, who had immigrated from [[Serooskerke, Walcheren|Serooskerke]] in the |
Beneker was born on January 26, 1882, in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], the son of Bartel Albertus Beneker, who had immigrated from [[Serooskerke, Walcheren|Serooskerke]] in the Netherlands, and Pauline Catherine Steketee.<ref name="AAA"/><ref name="red.cross">{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHPpAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA18|journal=The Red Cross Magazine|first=A. J.|last=Philpott|title=The Brush That Draws Them Together|pages=18–22, 66, 68|date=November 1919|accessdate=2011-11-16}}</ref><ref name=anc>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Gerrit_A_Beneker_records.ashx?pid=5316373|title=Gerrit A Beneker 1881-1934 - Ancestry|website=records.ancestry.com}}</ref> He first studied at the [[Chicago Art Institute]], where his teachers included [[John Vanderpoel]] and [[Frederick Richardson]]; later he transferred to the Art Students League in New York.<ref name="aadir">{{cite journal|journal=American Art Annual|volume=10|title=Beneker, Gerrit A.|editor-last=Levy|editor-first=Florence Nightingale|year=1913|publisher=American Federation of Arts|page=215}}</ref> In September 1907 he married Flora Judd Van Vranken from [[Marcellus, New York]], with whom he would have four children.<ref name= anc/> |
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After working as an illustrator in New York, he became a student of [[Charles Webster Hawthorne]] in 1912 at the [[Cape Cod School of Art]] |
After working as an illustrator in New York, he became a student of [[Charles Webster Hawthorne]] in 1912 at the [[Cape Cod School of Art]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles Webster Hawthorne Founds the Cape Cod School of Art |publisher=Traditional Fine Arts Organization |first=James R. |last=Bakker |url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/9aa/9aa612.htm |accessdate=2011-11-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113000241/http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/9aa/9aa612.htm |archivedate=2015-01-13 }}</ref> although his work brought about frequent moves, he returned to the area in the summers and in 1920 bought a summer house in [[Truro, Massachusetts]].<ref name="askart" /> |
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| ⚫ | In July 1918, Beneker was hired, under the title of "Expert Aid, Navy Department", to create posters and illustrations for the war effort.<ref name="outlook">{{cite journal|journal=[[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]]|date=October 9, 1918|title=Work and Fight|pages=204|volume=120|issue=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0i7abY1c-ZwC&q=gerrit+beneker&pg=PA204|accessdate=2011-11-17}}</ref> It was in this period that he painted his most familiar work, "Sure We'll Finish the Job", which sold over three million copies.<ref name="artnet">{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/gerrit-albertus-beneker/biography-links|title=Gerrit Albertus Beneker|publisher=artnet.com|accessdate=2011-11-17}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | In July 1918, Beneker was hired, under the title of "Expert Aid, Navy Department", to create posters and illustrations for the war effort.<ref name="outlook">{{cite journal|journal=[[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]]|date=October 9,1918|title=Work and Fight|pages=204|volume=120|issue=7|url= |
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File:I will back you by Gerrit A. Beneker, 1918.png | "I will back you" |
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File:Work as you would fight by Gerrit A. Beneker, 1918.png | "Work as you would fight" |
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The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let us all strive to make the future better and brighter than the past... - NARA - 541774.tif | "The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let us all strive to make the future better and brighter than the past..." |
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Later Beneker spent four years painting workers of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of a labor-management relations improvement project;<ref name="artnet"/> similar projects were carried out at the [[General Electric]] plant in [[Schenectady, New York]], and at the [[Rohm and Haas]] plant in Philadelphia.<ref name="askart">{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=23901|title=Biography for Gerrit Beneker|publisher=AskArt|accessdate=2011-11-18}}<!-- This website can only be accessed for free on Fridays. --></ref> |
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He died on 23 October 1934 in Truro.<ref name=anc/> |
He died on 23 October 1934 in Truro.<ref name=anc/> |
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Beneker was one of the founders of the [[Provincetown Art Association and Museum]].<ref name="PAAM.history">{{cite web|url=http://www.paam.org/archives.html|title=PAAM's Historic Archives and Scholarly Resources|publisher=Provincetown Art Association and Museum|accessdate=2011-11-16}}</ref> His papers are held by the [[Archives of American Art]] of the [[Smithsonian Institution]].<ref name="AAA">{{cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/gerrit-beneker-papers-8880|title=Gerrit A. Beneker papers, 1869–1972|publisher=Archives of American Art|accessdate=2011-11-16}}</ref> |
Beneker was one of the founders of the [[Provincetown Art Association and Museum]].<ref name="PAAM.history">{{cite web|url=http://www.paam.org/archives.html |title=PAAM's Historic Archives and Scholarly Resources |publisher=Provincetown Art Association and Museum |accessdate=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006103117/http://paam.org/archives.html |archivedate=2011-10-06 }}</ref> His papers are held by the [[Archives of American Art]] of the [[Smithsonian Institution]].<ref name="AAA">{{cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/gerrit-beneker-papers-8880|title=Gerrit A. Beneker papers, 1869–1972|publisher=Archives of American Art|accessdate=2011-11-16}}</ref> |
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==Analysis== |
==Analysis== |
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[[File:'Telephone Operator' by Gerrit A. Beneker.JPG | thumb|upright|''Telephone Operator (A Weaver of Public Thought)'', 1921]] |
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Beneker's output was prodigious, with some five hundred works in oil produced over a thirty year period, exclusive of his many illustrations.<ref name="askart"/> The latter appeared in over eighty publications including ''[[Scientific American]]'' and ''[[Harper's Weekly]]''.<ref name="askart"/> He was also noted for his [[Ivory Soap]] advertisements.<ref name="askart"/> Most of his work consists of portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings of industrial and manual labor, and it is for the last that he is best known.<ref name="askart"/> |
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[[File:Portrait of George Trapp, worker, by Gerrit A. Beneker dl full size.jpg | thumb|upright|''Portrait of George Trapp, blue-collar worker'', 1930]] |
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Beneker's output was prodigious, with some five hundred works in oil produced over a thirty-year period, exclusive of his many illustrations.<ref name="askart"/> |
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Most of his work consists of portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings of industrial and manual labor, and it is for the last that he is best known.<ref name="askart"/> |
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| ⚫ | Beneker's industrial paintings are optimistic and uplift the common laborer. James Guimond lists him, along with such other artists as [[Alfred Stieglitz]], [[Joseph Stella]], and [[Margaret Bourke-White]], as a participant in "a popular genre of industrial art that was a kind of sooty romanticism."<ref name="guimond">{{cite book|first =James|last=Guimond|title=American Photography and the American Dream|pages=86|publisher=UNC Press|year=1991|isbn=9780807843086|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHNCKKhhCQQC&q=gerrit+beneker&pg=86|accessdate=2011-11-18}}</ref> His industrial paintings toured the country, and Beneker was in great demand as a lecturer.<ref name="artnet"/> |
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| ⚫ | While his portraiture and industrial works are conservatively realistic, his landscapes are noted for their [[impressionism]].<ref name="boston">{{cite news|newspaper=Boston Globe|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/08/29/museums_exhibits_celebrate_provincetowns_artistic_heritage/|title=Museum's exhibits celebrate Provincetown's artistic heritage|first=Cate|last=McQuaid|date=2003-08-29|accessdate=2011-11-18}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Beneker's industrial paintings are optimistic and uplift the common laborer. James Guimond lists him, along with such other artists as [[Alfred |
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In addition, Beneker's illustrations appeared in over eighty publications including ''[[Scientific American]]'' and ''[[Harper's Weekly]]''.<ref name="askart"/> He was noted for his [[Ivory Soap]] advertisements.<ref name="askart"/> |
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| ⚫ | While his portraiture and industrial works are conservatively realistic, his landscapes are noted for their [[impressionism]].<ref name="boston">{{cite news|newspaper=Boston Globe|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/08/29/museums_exhibits_celebrate_provincetowns_artistic_heritage/|title=Museum's exhibits celebrate Provincetown's artistic heritage|first=Cate|last=McQuaid|date= |
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==References== |
==References== |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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{{Commons category|Gerrit Albertus Beneker}} |
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*"[http://books.google.com/books?id=J1HrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA479-IA3&dq=beneker&hl=en#v=onepage&q=beneker&f=false Gerrit Beneker's Labor Posters]" in {{cite journal|journal=The American Magazine of Art|volume=IX|date=October 1918|issue=12|pages=479–482}} |
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*{{cite journal|title=Gerrit Beneker's Labor Posters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1HrAAAAMAAJ&q=beneker&pg=PA479-IA3|journal=The American Magazine of Art|volume=IX|date=October 1918|issue=12|pages=479–482}} |
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*{{cite journal|author-first=Gerrit|author-last= Beneker |title=Art – A Constructive Force |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vz8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA377|journal=The American Magazine of Art|volume=X|date=August 1919|issue=10|pages=377–385}} |
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| NAME = Beneker, Gerrit Albertus |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American illustrator and painter |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 26 January 1882 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| DATE OF DEATH = 23 October 1934 |
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| PLACE OF DEATH = Truro, Massachusetts |
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[[Category:American illustrators]] |
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[[Category:American male painters]] |
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[[Category:Artists from Michigan]] |
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Latest revision as of 15:51, 7 July 2024
Gerrit Albertus Beneker (January 26, 1882 – October 23, 1934) was an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of industrial scenes and for his poster work in World War I.
Biography
[edit]Beneker was born on January 26, 1882, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Bartel Albertus Beneker, who had immigrated from Serooskerke in the Netherlands, and Pauline Catherine Steketee.[1][2][3] He first studied at the Chicago Art Institute, where his teachers included John Vanderpoel and Frederick Richardson; later he transferred to the Art Students League in New York.[4] In September 1907 he married Flora Judd Van Vranken from Marcellus, New York, with whom he would have four children.[3]
After working as an illustrator in New York, he became a student of Charles Webster Hawthorne in 1912 at the Cape Cod School of Art;[5] although his work brought about frequent moves, he returned to the area in the summers and in 1920 bought a summer house in Truro, Massachusetts.[6]
In July 1918, Beneker was hired, under the title of "Expert Aid, Navy Department", to create posters and illustrations for the war effort.[7] It was in this period that he painted his most familiar work, "Sure We'll Finish the Job", which sold over three million copies.[8]
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"I will back you" -
"Work as you would fight" -
"Sure! We'll finish the job" -
"The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let us all strive to make the future better and brighter than the past..."
Later Beneker spent four years painting workers of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of a labor-management relations improvement project;[8] similar projects were carried out at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York, and at the Rohm and Haas plant in Philadelphia.[6]
He died on 23 October 1934 in Truro.[3]
Beneker was one of the founders of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.[9] His papers are held by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.[1]
Analysis
[edit]
Beneker's output was prodigious, with some five hundred works in oil produced over a thirty-year period, exclusive of his many illustrations.[6] Most of his work consists of portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings of industrial and manual labor, and it is for the last that he is best known.[6]
Beneker's industrial paintings are optimistic and uplift the common laborer. James Guimond lists him, along with such other artists as Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Stella, and Margaret Bourke-White, as a participant in "a popular genre of industrial art that was a kind of sooty romanticism."[10] His industrial paintings toured the country, and Beneker was in great demand as a lecturer.[8]
While his portraiture and industrial works are conservatively realistic, his landscapes are noted for their impressionism.[11]
In addition, Beneker's illustrations appeared in over eighty publications including Scientific American and Harper's Weekly.[6] He was noted for his Ivory Soap advertisements.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gerrit A. Beneker papers, 1869–1972". Archives of American Art. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ^ Philpott, A. J. (November 1919). "The Brush That Draws Them Together". The Red Cross Magazine: 18–22, 66, 68. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ^ a b c "Gerrit A Beneker 1881-1934 - Ancestry". records.ancestry.com.
- ^ Levy, Florence Nightingale, ed. (1913). "Beneker, Gerrit A.". American Art Annual. 10. American Federation of Arts: 215.
- ^ Bakker, James R. "Charles Webster Hawthorne Founds the Cape Cod School of Art". Traditional Fine Arts Organization. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ a b c d e f "Biography for Gerrit Beneker". AskArt. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
- ^ "Work and Fight". The Outlook. 120 (7): 204. October 9, 1918. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ a b c "Gerrit Albertus Beneker". artnet.com. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
- ^ "PAAM's Historic Archives and Scholarly Resources". Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ^ Guimond, James (1991). American Photography and the American Dream. UNC Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780807843086. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
- ^ McQuaid, Cate (2003-08-29). "Museum's exhibits celebrate Provincetown's artistic heritage". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gerrit Albertus Beneker.
- "Gerrit Beneker's Labor Posters". The American Magazine of Art. IX (12): 479–482. October 1918.
- Beneker, Gerrit (August 1919). "Art – A Constructive Force". The American Magazine of Art. X (10): 377–385.
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