For all of you who fell asleep while listening to Goodnight Moon or read it to your children or grandchildren, there’s a new book out that features a Frank W. Benson painting guaranteed to help little ones drift off to sleep as they dream of rocking in a small boat on a gentle sea. Goodnight […]
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The month of March is a time of migration. The skies are full of geese heading north making a graceful “V” against the pale spring sky. The patterns these migrating wildfowl make as they wing their way to their summer homes remind those who admire Frank Benson’s art of the beautiful wash drawings that he
When Frank W. Benson returned from two years of study at the Academie Julian in Paris he hung out his shingle and began painting portraits as quickly as he could. He’d just become engaged to a childhood friend, Ellen Peirson, and needed to prove to her widowed mother that he could support a wife and family.
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