“In a more abstract group of metal sculptures, Tatti used color, as well as placement, to set up dynamic areas of linear pushing and pulling and planar give and take. As with Henry Moore, even Tatti’s most abstract-looking sculptures usually have some basis in reality.”

— Cynthia Nadelman Benedict Tatti, Sculptor 1917-1993 James Graham & Sons Gallery. NYC – Catalog, 2007

Whether evoking a gored bull or the gracefully curving sails of a sailboat, Ben Tatti understood how to use space, color, originality, and wit to bring industrial objects—such as welded and painted plates of steel—to life.