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A New Mexico resident since 1971, Bob spent his formative years in northeastern Ohio , receiving encouragement and strong interest in the visual arts at an early age from his mother, executing his first oil painting at the age of ten. Bob won several state and national awards for commercial design while still in high school, including a journalism award for editorial cartooning from Kent State University . Arriving in New Mexico in fall of 1971, Bob worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, continuing to develop his stylistic approach. Many of Bob Benjamin's lithographs are in the permanent collections of museums. A national traveling exhibit, "Lithography in New Mexico ", curated by the Museum of New Mexico featured one of his prints. The New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; the Roswell, New Mexico, Museum and Art Center; and the Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, Arizona; have Bob's lithographs in their permanent collections. He is represented in the collections of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport ; the University of New Mexico Medical Center Cancer Research and Treatment Facility, Albuquerque ; the Smithsonian Institution National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. ; The Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque ; and other public and private collections.

 

 

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