Benedict Tatti








Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Kinetic
Welded Steel and Paint
61 H. x 16 W. x 16 D. inches
Signed on base: TATTI






Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Excalibur
Welded Steel and Paint
45 H. x 15 W. x 13 1/5 D. inches
Signed on base: TATTI









Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract Figure
Welded Chain Link
41 H. x 12 1/4 W. x 10 D. inches













Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract Form
Welded Pickaxes
36 H. x 11 W. x 11 D. inches
Signed on base: TATTI




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Two Figures
Welded Steel
24 H. x 36 W. x 22 D. inches





Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Oriental, circa 1975
Steel
22 1/2 H. x 15 W. x 8 D. inches








Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Geometric, circa 1960
Welded Steel
16 H. x 16 W. x 12 D. inches
Base 2 H. inches




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Owl
Steel and Paint
16 1/2 H. x 7 W. x 3 1/2 D. inches




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Horse
Welded Steel and Paint
20 H. x 26 1/4 W. x 5 3/4 D. inches
Signed: TATTI









Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Tree
Welded Bronze and Slag
16 H. x 11 W. x 13 D. inches





Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract composition
Torn Steel
14 H. x 16 W. x 16 1/2 D. inches





Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Bird in Flight, circa 1950s
Marble
12 3/4 H. x 7 1/4 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI







Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Bird, circa 1970
Sheet Lead Soldered
5 1/2 H. x 6 3/4 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI





Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Lead Abstraction V, circa 1970
Soldered Lead
6 1/8 H. x 7 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI










Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Lead Abstraction VI, circa 1970
Soldered lead and wire
3 3/4 H. x 6 3/4 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI





Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Lead Abstract IV, circa 1970
Soldered Lead
3 1/4 H. x 6 1/4 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Face In the Mirror, circa 1955
Oil on canvas
20 H. x 16 W. inches


Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Feeding Frenzy Seagulls Monhegan, 1959
Watercolor on paper
14 H. x 20 W. inches
Signed LR: TATTI
Titled, Estate Stamped, dated verso


Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Maine Coast, Monhegan Island, 1950
Watercolor on paper
14 1/2 H. x 19 3/4 W. inches
Signed & Dated LR: B. Tatti ’50
Titled, Dated, Estate Stamped Verso


Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Monhegan Island, Maine, 1960
Watercolor on paper
15 1/4 H. x 11 1/4 W. inches
Signed, titled , dated verso

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Seagulls Monhegan, circa 1955
Watercolor on paper
16 1/2 H. x 14 1/2 W. inches




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Head, circa 1960
Marble, limestone, and granite mounted on a wood base
11 3/4 H. x 5 1/2 W. x 6 1/2 D. inches.

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Monhegan Island, Maine, 1947
Watercolor on paper
7 1/2 H. x 11 W. inches
Signed, Titled, Dated Verso




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Reclining Nude
Marble
5 3/4 H. x 7 3/4 W. inches



Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract Form
Wood, 9 H. inches




Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Totem, 1962
Carved wood
11 1/8 H. x 4 W. x 2 1/4 D. inches
Base: 2 H. x 5 W. x 3 3/4 D. inches
Stamped verso: TATTI 62
Sold Archive







Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Painted Organic Form, c. 1960’s
Wood, stain, oil paint, 9 ½ H. x 8 W. x 4 D inches
Signed reverse: TATTI
Signed and inscribed underneath base

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Bird, c. 1950s-1960s
Marble
7 1/2 H. x 8 1/2 W. inches
Signed on base: TATTI

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Totem, 1962
Marble
49 1/4 H. x 2 3/8 W. inches
Signed verso: TATTI

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Torso, c. 1950s-1960s
Wood, paint
14 3/4 H. inches

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract, Pipe, c. 1960
Steel and paint
11 1/2 H. inches

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Abstract, Tri-form
Steel
18 1/2 H. inches

Benedict Tatti
American, 1917-1993
Scrap Assemblage, c. 1960
Steel and paint
24 H. x 8 1/2 W. x 7 D. inches
Signed on base: TATTI
Artist Description
Benedict Michael Tatti was born in New York City on May l, l917. At an early age, he demonstrated a marked talent for art. While attending Haaren High School, he studied stone and wood carving under Louis Slobodkin at the Roerich Museum. He later attended the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art studying under Attillio Piccirelli. In l939 he taught adult classes with the Teachers Project of the W.P.A. and attended the Art Students League for three and a half years on full scholarship. He studied under William Zorach and Ossip Zadkin and became Zorach’s assistant.
He began to exhibit his early works at the ACA Gallery, Puma Gallery, Weyhe Gallery and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the Artists for Victory Show in 1942. During the early years of World War II, he worked at the Brooklyn Navy yard as a welder until he was drafted in 1943 into the US Army Air Force where he spent more than three years in a variety of assignments. He won first prize for his sculpture, “Soldier”, in the National Soldier Art Competition, which was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. and the Chicago Art Institute. He continued to direct carve both wood and stone into the decade of the fifties. He also developed his watercolor techniques during summer visits to Monhegan Island, Maine, where many of his friends summered. In l970, he was awarded Artist-in-Residence with the National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED in San Francisco. This started a period of experimentation with video imaging that lasted some 10 years. After acquiring the technology, he became an associate member of the “Kitchen” at the Mercer Street Art Center exhibiting video sculpture along with other early innovators of this new art form.
He retired from teaching but continued to work and exhibit in the 1980’s. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, American Numismatic Society, USDAN Center for Performing Arts, Arts Students League, Monhegan Museum and Dunbarton Oaks.