Artist

Garry Knox Bennett

born Alameda, CA 1934-died 2022
Born
Alameda, California, United States
Biography

Born in Alameda, California, Garry Knox Bennett is a self-taught studio furniture maker who uses traditional fine woodworking techniques for both synthetic and natural materials. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1959 to 1962 and then worked as a metal sculptor. After managing his own successful jewelry and metal-plating business, he began to create metal sculpture. As he attempted to produce larger works of art and began to incorporate wood, this led him to making furniture. Bennett is known for gracefully combining wood with disparate materials such as aluminum, glass, precious and industrial metals, and plastic laminates.

Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)

Works by this artist (1036 items)

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William H. Johnson, Young Pastry Cook, ca. 1928-1930, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.693
Young Pastry Cook
Artist
Dateca. 1928-1930
oil on canvas
On view
William H. Johnson, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1935-1938, oil on burlap, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.814
Portrait of a Man
Artist
Dateca. 1935-1938
oil on burlap
On view
William H. Johnson, Tehran Conference, ca. 1945, oil on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.647
Tehran Conference
Artist
Dateca. 1945
oil on plywood
On view
William H. Johnson, Jim, 1930, oil on canvas, mounted on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.748
Jim
Artist
Date1930
oil on canvas, mounted on masonite
On view