# 346 by Max Benjamin
- Title: # 346
- Artist: Max Benjamin
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Size: 60"h x 40"w
- Creation date: 2009
- Added to collection: 2015
- Donor: The Bill Rhoades collection, a gift in memory of Murna and Vay Rhoades
- Campus: Rock Creek
- Location: B2/2 Hallway gallery
The large 60x40" painting may evoke the dizzying sensation of looking down from an airplane at shapes of land, water, ice or vapor; but Benjamin, though inspired by landscape, refers to his paintings as "completely self-contained visual entities with no direct reference to the visual world." Of a retrospective exhibition of 40 Max Benjamin paintings at Foster White Gallery in 1993, Matthew Kangas wrote; "The oils exude a godlike authority that is both exhilarating and possibly worrying." Indeed, many of Benjamin's paintings evoke the grand scale of nature and a sense of awe and terror sometimes referred to as "The Sublime."
