Ben Messick - Softcover David Klein the San Diego Museum of

the San Diego Museum of Art

George Post has long been recognized as one of California’s premier watercolor artists

1989 through January 20

“I must please myself

Ben Messick - Softcover David Klein the San Diego Museum of90 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;