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HaroldBaumbachwasborninNewYorkCityin1904.Forashortwhilehe
studiedatthePrattInstituteArtSchoolinBrooklyn,NewYork.Atonetimehe
taughtalifeclassattheBrooklynMuseumandatpresentteachespaintingand
drawingintheSchoolofGeneralStudiesofBrooklynCollege.Aprizewasawarded
hisexhibitatthePepsi-Colashowin1947.Baumbachsworksareinthecollectionsof
theBrooklynMuseum;MuseumoftheRhodeIslandSchoolofDesign;AlbrightAn
Callcry.Buffalo,NewYork;andtheuniversitiesofGeorgiaandArizona,aswellas
intheprivatecollectionsofStephenC.Clark,Mrs.DonaldO.Stewart,andMorton
Goldsmith,amongothers.HelivesinBrooklynandhasastudioinNewYorkCity.
BAZIO'l'ES,WilliamA.,'IhcSotniiambulist, 48 .\40.
BazioteswasborninPittsburgh,Pennsylvania,in1912.HestudiedattheNational
AcademyofDesigninNewYorkCity.PrizesandawardsincludeFirstPrizeinthe
exhibitionofabstractandsurrealisticartattheArtInstituteofChicagoin 1947 and
apurchaseprizeforhisMoonAnimalatthefourthUniver.sityofIllinoisExhibition
ofContemporary.AmericanPaintingin1951.
ForageneralstatementbyBaziotesrelativetohispaintingseethecatalogueof
theUniversityofIllinoisExhibitionofContemporaryAmericanPaintingin1950.
HisworkhasfoundapermanentplaceinthecollectionsoftheMetropolitanMuseum
ofArtinNewYork,ArtInstituteofChicago,UniversityofIllinois,^Vashington
UniversityinSt.Louis.Missouri,andelsewhere.Heli\esinNew^'()rkCity.
BENRIMO,Tom,Pastorale, 30 x40. Illustration—Plate 59
TomBenrimowasborninSanFranciscoin1887.HestudiedbrieflyattheArt
StudentsLeagueofNewYorkbutisforthemostpartself-educated.Duringtheyears
1910 to 1920 hewasinvolvedindesigningsetsandotherworkofanartisticnature
forthetheaterinNewYork.From 1935 to 1939 Benrimotaughtinthedepartments
ofillustrationandadvertisingatthePrattInstituteinNewYork.Theyear 1939
broughthimthe.ArtDirectorsMedalforcolorillustration.One-manshowsbegan
in1933.HisworkisrepresentedinthepermanentcollectionoftheCincinnati(Ohio)
.ArtMuseum.HelivesinRanchosdeTaos,NewMexico.ForastatementbyBen-
rimoregardingwhatmightbecalledhisphilosophyofart,seethecatalogueofthe
UniversityofIllinoisExhibitionofContemporaryAmericanPaintingin1951.
BENTLEY,ClaudeR.,RoseandWhite,4:5x21'i.
"Primarily,tome,thenaturalaspectofthingsisnotimportant.Theremu.stbea
unityofcoloranddesignandanymodificationofcolorandformtoachievethat
unityinthepainting.Objectiveornon-objectiveformsmayresultasthepainting
developes,theirexistencebeingdeterminedbytheirintuitiverightne.ss."
"ThebrilliantcolorofMexicostill.saturatedmyvisionwhenIreturnedhometo
paintRoseandWhite.ThecolorsarethosewornbymanyIndianwomenandalso
usedtodecoratethecarnivalsandfiestasofeverysmallvillage.
"TheimpressionofMexico'spre-.Spanishheritageiseverywhereapparenttothe
interestedeye.Thefragmentaryformsofmypaintingare.symbolsofthatarrheo-
logicalpast."
ClaudeBentleywasborninNew\'orkCityin1915.HestudiedatNorthwestern
