Ben Messick - Softcover Stanley Wood Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach

Fletcher Martin

Laguna Art Museum

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Ben Messick - Softcover Stanley Wood Laguna Beach90 pages, by James R. Lafferty, Sr. 51 color illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations Softcover $39. 00 This book is the definitive biography of rediscovered artist Benjamin Newton Messick, 1891 1981. Messick was one of America's most important Scene painters and Modernists of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. His paintings and prints have been shown in over four hundred exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Annual in 1927; the Carnegie Institute, 1941;