A Treasured Investment
Benjamin Knox (b.1968)
Art Created in the Representational Style of the Great Masters
"A very fine artist."
"Benjamin Knox is a treasure, a great Aggie, profound artist, and loyal friend."
"I will hang your artwork where I can admire it frequently."
"Artist of the year."
"Painting a Bright Future. Benjamin Knox went from a starving artist receiving scholarships to giving them."
"You are a professional artist of the highest order."
"We live in a home designed by Benjamin Knox and it is like living in a piece of beautiful art."
Benjamin Knox (born 1968 Lubbock, TX) has had a very illustrious professional art career since 1988 and has developed a very impressive clientele of friends and collectors. They boast of how his artwork is always a conversation piece, provides daily inspiration and beauty, and is passed down from one generation to the next. His artwork also makes for an enduring gift. Now is the optimal time to collect the artwork of Benjamin Knox, truly "a treasured investment." Here are some reasons why:
- Benjamin Knox’s artwork graces the walls of thousands of homes and buildings, including that of distinguished art collectors, museums, prominent universities, distinguished companies, hotels, heads of state, professional athletes, celebrities, etc.
- He is a "lifetime" professional artist, devoting his entire life to the development of creating fine impactful works of art
- He opened his personal College Station gallery in 1993 at age 23, the first artist owned gallery in the area
- He has had 24 one-man shows, most at his College Station gallery and art center, which has had over 120,000 visitors to date
- His notoriety escalated to a national level when he was asked to be the official artist for the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in 1997, then commissioned to create the Native Texan license plate design for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the Alamo in 2003, and to create the official state gift of Texas for Governor Rick Perry in 2004
- In 2001 Knox designed an exact replica of the original College Station train depot, the namesake of the town of College Station (as his main gallery and art center), next to Texas A&M University. Texas Governor Rick Perry and Margaret Rudder (wife of legend General James Earl Rudder) were among the honored guests who dedicated the new facility
- His work has been published thousands of times and featured on a multitude of magazine and book covers, including 25 different phone book covers
- He is a professor of art and design at Texas A&M University in the Department of Visualization in the College of Architecture
Education
Texas A&M University College of Architecture 1993
Corps of Cadets class of 1990, Captain and Chaplain
Influential Architectural Critiques: Architects E. Fay Jones (1921-2004) and Charles Moore (1925-1993).
Over 20 years of Independent Studies with living master artists.
"The best student that I ever had."
Independent and Workshop Study
Benjamin has always been enraptured with the technique and style of historical artists like Rembrandt, Monet, Joaquin Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Isaak Levitan. He asked, "How can I learn to paint like these great monumental artists of history?" The answer was to study with master living artists who were teaching the foundational principles of these great masters.