Right at Home is over but, for the first time, there is one more Right at Home opportunity for you and your friends. 

The painting you see here by 2011 Featured Artist Ben Bassham is being auctioned online.   Killarney Skies, a $1600 value, would be an elegant addition to any home.

CURRENT HIGH BID IS $500.  Bidding closes at  5 pm, Friday, October 14, 2011

Media: Oil     Dimensions:  Painting with frame – 36” x 26”

Painting may also be view at the Coleman Foundation office.  Please call 330-676-6832 to make arrangements.

 Bidding will start at $400.

• Send bids via email to pam.fife@coleman-foundation.com
• The current high bid will be posted on this site daily. 
• In the event of duplicate bids, the first received will be the leading bid.  In the event of duplicate bid emails being received at the same time, a random drawing will determine winning bid.
• Bidding will close at 5 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 2011. 

Good Luck!

 

 

The Right at Home Committee is proud to announce the 2011 Featured Artist – Ben Bassham.  Ben has donated numerous pieces of art to Right at Home’s Art Action which are always well received.  Ben and his wife, Carlyn, are loyal supporters of Coleman and its mission.

 Ben is an Emeritus Professor of Art History at Kent State University.  After offering courses on American art and architecture for 30 years he retired in 1999 to devote his time to his first love, painting.  Ben’s colorful and realistic views of the landscape reflect his travels to diverse parts of this country as well as Italy, where he has gone many times.  He is drawn to the striking New Mexico deserts and mountains and to the coastlines of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 

 He and his family spend the month of May each year in Taos, New Mexico, a town with a long and distinguished place in the history of American painting.  Even today, as Ben likes to say, Taos boasts “more artists than lawyers.”  Most of Ben’s paintings represent Taos and its surroundings.  Ben studied art at the University of Arkansas, where he graduated in 1964.  He then chose to pursue graduate work in Art History at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.  A trip to Florence in 1988, where he directed a K.S.U. Honors program, inspired him to return to making his own art as well as teaching courses on the art of others.             

Since his return to painting around 1992, he has had three solo exhibitions—two at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio—and has shown his paintings in several Grand Exhibitions of the Akron Society of Artists.  His work has also been included in group shows in Youngstown (at the Butler Institute of American Art), Parkersburg, West Virginia, Kent, and Taos.  During the fall of 2006 Ben’s paintings were also shown in national exhibitions in Indianapolis, Buffalo, and New York City.  Ben has also attended workshops of the Plein Air Painters of America, where he studied with Ralph Oberg, and has studied at the Taos Institute of Arts with Don Ward.  In addition to his artistic production, Ben has written three books, edited two others, and published numerous scholarly articles. 

2011 Contributing Artists

Thom Bell

Roger Benedetti

Gretchen Bierbaum

Deborah Carl

Kit Carter

Don Drumm Studios

Christine Dzeda

Jennifer Eddy

Edwin George

Jance Lentz Hatch (2010 Featured Artist)

Carole  Keller

Robert Kirkpatrick

Frederick John  Kluth

Sheila Ashley Liston

Larry McCardel

Bill Peck

David Peters

Judy Pinckard

Jeanette Podnar

Stuart Pruitt

Vijay Rastogi

Merrielu Ritz

Jim Roetzel

Carolyn Sabagh

Nancy Oldham Seibert

Gingr Vaughan

Cheril Walker

Henry Walker

David Wascko

Robert E. Wood