Ben Messick - Softcover Stanley Wood and emerging culture of the

and emerging culture of the region

Laguna Art Museum

Laguna Beach

Ruth Ortlieb

Exhibited: Chouinard School of Art

Ben Messick - Softcover Stanley Wood and emerging culture of the90 pages, by James R. Lafferty, Sr. 51 color illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations Softcover $39. 00 This book is the definitive biography of rediscovered artist Benjamin Newton Messick, 1891 1981. Messick was one of America's most important Scene painters and Modernists of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. His paintings and prints have been shown in over four hundred exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Annual in 1927; the Carnegie Institute, 1941;