Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Painting |
Title |
Bennington House |
Artist/Creator |
Korzenik, Diana |
Date |
1965 |
Description |
Small, square oil on board painting of white house titled "Bennington House" by Diana Korzenik, 1965. Two story house with small porch in front. Green lawn in foreground. |
Width (inches) |
11.750 |
Height (inches) |
11.750 |
Information |
Around Thanksgiving 1948, Diana Korzenik, a young girl from Brooklyn, was visiting Bennington with her family. Having recently seen Grandma Moses on the cover of Life magazine, Diana’s father arranged to meet the elderly artist. He told Moses that Diana also "wanted to be an artist." Hearing this, Moses gave Diana a painting with the condition that she make a picture for Moses in exchange. Diana was happy to comply. Seventeen years later Korzenik returned to Bennington for a summer and created this portrait of a local house. In the ensuing decades Korzenik, still inspired by Moses, became a professor of art education and formed an important collection of ephemera and artifacts related to art education in nineteenth-century America. Her collection is now housed at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. |
Related People |
Korzenik, Diana |
Credit line |
Gift of Diana Korzenik |
Catalog Number |
2015.12.4 |