Christopher Benson

Thinking of the Island

(2024) oil/linen 24” x 20”

Impact Zone

(2024) oil/linen 36" x 52" SOLD

Beavertail Waves 2

(2025) oil/linen 24” x 24” SOLD

Beavertail Waves 1

(2025) oil/linen 24” x 24” SOLD

Taoist Wave

(2023) oil/panel 24” x 24” SOLD

False Flag

(2023) oil/Dorland’s wax/linen 48” x 36” SOLD

Constructed Abstraction #6

(2006) 12" x 16" x 3” oil/constructed wood panels SOLD

The Falcon, Sketch 2

(2023) oil on panel, 6” x 6” SOLD

A Fast Sky

(2023) oil on panel, 6” x 6” SOLD

Half Moon Bay Surf

(2022) oil/linen 24” x 36” SOLD

Red House #1

(2023) oil on panel 8” x 8” SOLD

Impact Zone

(2022) oil/linen 32” x 58” (framed 34” x 60”) SOLD

A Cloud for Flo

Oil/linen 20" x 16" SOLD

Red White and Blue Collage #7

(2021) oil on linen samples on panel, 11” x 14” with painted wooden tray frame: 17 5/8” x 20 5/8” x 2” SOLD

Knuckle Sandwich

(2021) oil on linen, 48” x 36” with painted floater frame: 50.25” x 38.25” x 2” SOLD

Red White and Blue Collage #3

(2021) oil on linen samples on panel, 11” x 14” with painted wooden tray frame: 17 5/8” x 20 5/8” x 2” SOLD

Tin Mine

(2021) collaged oil on linen pieces on panel, 16” x 12” With painted floater frame: 18.25” x 14.25” x 2” SOLD

Green Border

(2021) oil on linen pieced on panel, 8” x 8” with painted wooden tray frame: 14 5/8” x 2.5” SOLD

Red White and Blue Collage #8

(2021) oil on linen samples on panel, 8” x 8” with painted wooden tray frame: 14 5/8” x 2.5” SOLD

Red White and Blue Collage #4

(2021) oil on linen pieced on panel, 12” x 12” with painted wooden tray frame: 14 5/8” x 2.5” SOLD

The Strand

(2022) oil on panel-framed, 12 x 16“ SOLD

Cloud River

(2022) oil on linen-framed, 11 x 14” SOLD

Layer Cake

(2022) oil on panel, 6 x 6” SOLD

Wave Doorway

(2022) oil on panel, 6” x 6” SOLD

Gateway

(2022) oil on panel, 6 x 6” SOLD

Horizon

(2022) oil on panel, 6 x 6” SOLD

Empty Sea

(2021) 16 x 20” SOLD

Gate with Tree

(2021) 6 x 6” SOLD

Red Gate Number 2

(2021) 14 x 11” SOLD

Red Gate Number 1

(2021) 8 x 8” SOLD

Somewhere in a Storm

(2021) oil/wood panel 8” x 8” SOLD

Imaginary Streetscape

oil/linen 14” x 16” SOLD

Half Moon

(2019) Oil on Panel, 8x8” SOLD

Green Coast

oil/panel 6” x 6” SOLD

Waterspout

oil/panel 6” x 6” SOLD

Small Square Wave

2019, oil on panel, 8 by 8 inches, framed size – 14.75” x 14.75" SOLD

Back in the Bullring

2012, oil on panel, 30” x 30” SOLD

Landscape Through a Red Frame

20” x 20”, Monotype in colored ink on rag paper SOLD

Angled Road

Charcoal on Gessoed Bristol board 12.5” x 12.5” SOLD

Landscape for Morty

Oil on Gessoed Panel 16” x 10”, (with frame 22” x 18”) SOLD

Landscape through a Red Frame

Oil Stick on Linen 10.5” x 10.5”, (with frame 17.5” x 17.5”) SOLD

Tricolor

Oil on Linen, Mounted on Panel 11” x 14” (with frame 17” x 20”) SOLD

Window with Red Curtains and Green Field

Oil on Gessoed Panel 5” x 7”, (with frame 9” x 11”) SOLD

Little Compton Field

Oil on Linen 20" x 22" SOLD

Roswell #8

(2014) oil on linen framed in off-white platform floater 24”x36” SOLD

AUTO AID (Roswell #4)

(2013) oil on linen framed in off-white platform floater 48” x 72” SOLD

Brenton Point Surf

(2017) oil on linen framed in plain white floater 18” x 24” SOLD

Smokey Sou'wester

oil/linen 12" x 22" SOLD

About the Artist

Christopher Benson was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1960 and grew up in nearby Newport. From 1975 to 1979 he attended the Woodstock Country School in South Woodstock, Vermont where he met his first and most formative painting teacher and mentor, Peter Devine. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and a two-time winner of the Pollock-Krasner Painting Fellowship.

Benson’s work – which traverses a variety of idioms, from landscape, seascape, architectural and figurative genre scenes, to both expressionistic and formalist abstraction – all descends from a long line of Modern European and American painters with an affinity for gestural brushwork and bright, often luminous color. While there are a great many other painters who have inspired his work, Benson feels a particular kinship to George Bellows’ early twentieth century urban realism and to the expressionistic paint-handling of Willem deKooning and Richard Diebenkorn.

Benson has exhibited his oil paintings, both his realism and abstractions, in galleries and museums throughout the United States – especially in New England, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the southwestern states of Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. In the summer of 2022, he had a two-person show at the North Dakota Museum of Art with the Rhode Island painter Sue McNally, and another two person show in October of 2023 at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas.