Two Boys in a Boat is a quick oil study of George Benson and his close friend Henry Chaplin. The boys were inseparable, spending their days together collecting arrowheads, hunting, bird watching, sailing or rowing the Benson’s many boats and going on “rambles.” It was Henry’s father Heman Chaplin who first introduced the Bensons to […]
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“My Little Girl” currently for sale Frank W. Benson once said that he was delighted when his “home grown models” began to arrive. Of his four children, his oldest Eleanor was the child he used most often as a model. There exist at least 16 paintings of her. This is the only one that is a true portrait.
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Faith Andrews Bedford to speak via Zoom, Mar. 7 at 7 p.m. EST As a boy, Frank W. Benson spent every free moment tramping the marshes surrounding his boyhood in home in Salem, Massachusetts and sketching the birds that filled them. His first painting, at age 16, was of a snipe. Almost 70 years later, his last
Frank W. Benson Firelight signed and dated ‘F.W. Benson ’93’ (lower left) oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.) Painted in 1893. Noted newscaster Barbara Walters bought this beautiful painting by Frank W. Benson many years ago. In November, 2023 it will be put up for auction. Firelight is one of
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I have examined these etchings; all are in excellent condition, each one the best of an edition. They are mounted on conservation mat and enclosed in archival glassine envelopes. They have always been kept in a climate controlled vault. Please contact me regarding how you can obtain some of these prints for yourself.
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By the time Frank W. Benson was fifty, he was internationally famous and his career was secure. The painter who won every award the art world had to offer, whom journalists dubbed “America’s most medalled artist,” was in great demand as a portraitist. His sparkling, sun-drenched paintings of his children at their summer home on Maine’s North
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This book focuses on Frank W. Benson’s life and work in Maine, where he spent summers on North Haven Island, at Wooster Farm. It was there that he painted almost all of his brilliant, light-filled Impressionist paintings, launched his prolific etching career, and began his highly successful watercolor period, many of which are illustrated. Also
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In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist and painter of plein air canvases, Frank W. Benson returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood and scenes of his hunting
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Mrs. Andrews Bedford has drawn on a rich store of family memories, diaries, letters and archives to create an intimate biography of the artist. Her research both here and abroad have created an authoritative portrait of the artist and his personal and professional milieu. This rare material allows intriguing insights into the development of a
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