Karl Benjamin Home and Studio
In 1952, artist Karl Benjamin moved to Claremont, California, to attend graduate school, where he eventually taught for many years. As he recalled in 2010, “Everybody said, ‘We’ve got to get to Los Angeles, because this is Peoria out here! Nobody is going to come out here and look at your stuff.’ But, by this time, I had two kids and I liked that part of it. I liked having a house, and I couldn’t see doing that in Los Angeles, and I really got something out of teaching. It was a good thing.”