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Ben’s parents Morris and Mary Wilson who had emigrated from the Ukraine.
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Ben as an infant with his father, in 1913.
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Ben on a pony, five or six years old.
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Ben, at age 15, with his mother and two sisters at Coney Island, in 1928.
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Very early self portrait from the 1930’s.
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Cubist self portrait from the 1930s.
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Fellow WPA artist Evelyn Perlman, Ben’s future wife.
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Ben at his first one-man show, at the Galerie Neuf, in 1946.
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Ben, in his NYC studio with painting, 1940’s.
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Ben as a new father, with Joanne in 1942.
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At work on The Muckrakers in his NYC studio, in 1944.
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Ben, Evelyn, and Joanne at the beach in Rockaway, New York, in 1945
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Ben, Evelyn, and Joanne at the Statue of Liberty, in 1948.
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Ben at work in 1954 on a figurative painting of a mythic theme.
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Evelyn backdropped by one of Ben’s paintings at a 1950’s exhibition.
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By the 1960's, Ben had transitioned to Abstract Expressionism.
Evelyn sculpting in her studio.
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Best friends throughout a 65 year marriage.
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Ben outside of his studio in Blairstown.
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Ben and Evelyn, in the 1970’s, working alfresco before building their Blairstown, New Jersey studio.
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Ben and Evelyn at a friend’s exhibition.
Ben and Evelyn, in the 1970’s, with one of Evelyn’s sculptures.
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Ben and Evelyn at their winter home in Sarasota in the 1990’s.
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Sporting his Miro hat.
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At an exhibition of Ben’s work at the Millhouse Bundy Gallery in Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1996.
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At work on an abstract painting, in the 1990’s.
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Ben and Evelyn at their Blairstown, New Jersey house and studio, in the 1990’s with his beloved classic Oldsmobile Toronado.
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Ben’s Blairstown studio in 2001, the year of his death.
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Ben and Evelyn’s Blairstown, New Jersey 1780’s stone house.