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Game with Shapes
SANDERS, Benita Elizabeth
Cut-out intaglio (engraving, other tools, aquatint) from multiple plates printed in two colors on wove paper. Artist’s proof. Edition unknown.Sign...
View full detailsBenita Elizabeth SANDERS
An English-born Canadian artist, Benita Sanders studied in Paris, London, and Florence before joining Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in the early 1960s.
For Sanders, this experience was formative: it placed her in an international circle of artists exploring the expressive limits of the medium, and it gave her the technical command and adventurous spirit that defined her career.
After Paris, she continued her training at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in New York, extending her ties to two of the most influential printmaking ateliers of the 20th century. Sanders’s own work reflects this cosmopolitan foundation—her abstract intaglios and woodcuts show the layering, textural depth, and the balance between order and play. She visited Haida Gwaii in British Columbia; and this travel transformed her creative trajectory; she subsequently lived and worked there for almost four decades.
Today, Sanders’s art is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.