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Photograph by Nathan Benn of Mario Sanchez in Key West, FL

Creator: Nathan Benn
Offered by: Richard McGeehan Studio

Description
Image size is 15" x 22". Edition of 15.

Price listed is for photograph in custom frame with museum glass. Also available at $2800 unframed.

Information from the artist Nathan Benn:
I took this photograph on assignment for National Geographic Magazine in 1981 for a state story on Florida. The subject is self-taught "memory artist" Mario Sanchez (1908-2005) holding a memory painting on the veranda of his home in Key West. Cuban-American, Mr. Sanchez began working artistically in 1930 on media like paper bags and cedar wood boards. ... Described as a "memory artist" like Grandma Moses or Clementine Hunter, after earning a business degree in stenography in 1925, Sanchez went to Ybor City in Tampa. This work is a bas relief of a tropical scene.

Print in permanent collection of HistoryMiami Museum

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	1980-1999
Materials:	Photograph
Condition:	Good. Excellent condition
Creation Date:	1981
Styles / Movements:	Other
200 Lex Booth #:	10
Book References:	"Kodachrome Memory" by Nathan Benn, powerHouse Books, 2013, p.139. "A Peculiar Paradise" by Nathan Benn, powerHouse Books, 2018, pp.186-187.
Dealer Reference #:	RM242
Incollect Reference #:	694372

Dimensions

W.	27.5 in;	H.	23 in;
W.	69.85 cm;	H.	58.42 cm;

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