Ben Mahmoud

Art Brokerage; Ben Mahmoud American Artist: b.1935-2009. He grew up in West Virginia. For most of his professional career, he taught at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where he also kept his art studio. Painting was his most successful medium, attracting critical acclaim and commercial success, but he also worked in other media, including print making, photography, and sculpture. In 1972 he established an affiliation with the Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago that would last thirty years. Mahmoud has exhibited his work at galleries and museums throughout the American Midwest, and also in Washington, Holland, and Germany. His work has been added to over 25 permanent, public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum. Mahmoud lives on the east coast where his fascination with the surrounding flora influenced a collection of sculptures he called The Florida Series. Listings wanted.