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BENSON GALLERY
Montauk Highway
Bridgehampton, Long Island
New York 11932
Telephone 516 537 0598
Directors:
E.M. Benson  
Elaine K.G. Benson

BENSON GALLERY OPENS MAY 26
WITH FIRST OF SEVEN EXHIBITIONS
FEATURING WORK OF 46 aRTISTS 

The Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, Long Island, will open its seventh season of summer art exhibitions featuring the work of 46 artists in seven shows (each consisting of a series of one man shows), closing September 23.

Most of the artists are strongly identified with the Hampton scene, famous for the large colony of artists who came to settle in this area following World War II. Included are sculptors, painters, potters, jewelers, photographers, a glass maker and a fountain designer. Of the artists represented half are women. According to Gallery Director, Elaine K.G. Benson, "This was not contemplated as a [[strikethrough]] peon [[/strikethrough]] paean to women's liberation. I was pleasantly surprised that it just worked out that way." Mrs Benson will be joined for the third summer by her son, William Miller Goff, the Gallery's Associate Director.

The opening exhibition will feature work of six artists and others in two group shows through June 12. Included are Drawings by Lucia Wilcox, of Amagansett, astoundingly acheived  subsequent to losing her vision during the past year, and comparable to those she did when she was fully sighted. Mrs. Wilcox has shown at the Sidney Janis Gallery, and is in a number of important collections. Now in her seventies, a native of Lebanon who lived in Paris for some years, she has long been a central figure among the artists of the Hamptons.

Robert Reid, who teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design will exhibit abstracted beach scenes for the second time at the Benson gallery. A black artist who has recently been given a travelling exhibition in France, Reid's work is poetically mystical though based on recognizable landscape. 

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