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Benjamin Knotts (October 31, 1898 - 1965) was an artist in the United States.

He was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] He was photographed painting a federally funded mural at Julia Richman High School in New York City. He was working on pictorial map mural project with Guy Maccoy at the school.[2][3][4] The Met has a drawing by Knotts that was donated to it by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner.[5]


He prepared a portfolio of 26 silk screen plates for the METs Pennsylvania German Design publication.[6]

WPA administrator for Federal Art Project? head of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

He had a feud with Mordecai Gorelik who he was supervising for work the set of the King Hunger production.[7] He worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art including as Supervisor of Educational Exhibitions and as Display Manager.[8][9][10]

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  1. ^ "Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years". Wallace-Homestead Company. November 28, 1939 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Wheeler, Edward Jewitt; Funk, Isaac Kaufman; Woods, William Seaver (November 28, 1935). "Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World" – via Google Books.
  3. ^ McLanathan, Richard B. K.; Brown, Gene (November 28, 1978). The Arts. Arno Press. ISBN 9780405111532 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Julia Richman Educational Complex: Knott Mural - New York NY".
  5. ^ "Benjamin Knotts | In the Museum III". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  6. ^ Watson, Ernest William; Guptill, Arthur Leighton (November 28, 1944). "American Artist". Watson-Guptill Publications – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Fletcher, Anne (March 30, 2009). Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene Design and the American Theatre. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809386819 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ O'Connor, Francis V. (November 28, 1972). The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 9780874741131 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (November 28, 1952). "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan: A Selection from the European and Asiatic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art". H.N. Abrams – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "Art Digest". Art Digest, Incorporated. November 28, 1953 – via Google Books.