Mallard Drake
Type:Etching
Year:1875
Size:6.00" x 7.87"
Medium:Paper
Signed:Lower Right
Edition:94 / 150
Frank Weston Benson ART FOR SALE
1862 Salem, Massachusetts - 1951 Salem, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, portrait, genre and wildlife painting, etching.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Frank Benson was a painter of impressionist* seascapes and landscapes, often with figures posed by his wife and children, and also numerous hunting scenes. He spent most... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Frank Benson was a painter of impressionist* seascapes and landscapes, often with figures posed by his wife and children, and also numerous hunting scenes. He spent most of his life in the seaport town of Salem and loved trekking through the countryside for his subject... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Frank Benson was a painter of impressionist* seascapes and landscapes, often with figures posed by his wife and children, and also numerous hunting scenes. He spent most of his life in the seaport town of Salem and loved trekking through the countryside for his subject matter, especially wildlife. He is credited with making the American sporting print a distinct art form and for being one of the outstanding 20th-century wildlife printmakers. He was a teacher in... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Frank Benson was a painter of impressionist* seascapes and landscapes, often with figures posed by his wife and children, and also numerous hunting scenes. He spent most of his life in the seaport town of Salem and loved trekking through the countryside for his subject matter, especially wildlife. He is credited with making the American sporting print a distinct art form and for being one of the outstanding 20th-century wildlife printmakers. He was a teacher in Portland, Maine at The Society of Art, and in Boston at The Museum of Fine Arts, where he and his good friend Edmund Tarbell established it as a top-notch institution. He studied art in Boston at the Museum School of Fine Arts, and in 1883 in Paris with... Read full biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Frank Benson was a painter of impressionist* seascapes and landscapes, often with figures posed by his wife and children, and also numerous hunting scenes. He spent most of his life in the seaport town of Salem and loved trekking through the countryside for his subject matter, especially wildlife. He is credited with making the American sporting print a distinct art form and for being one of the outstanding 20th-century wildlife printmakers. He was a teacher in Portland, Maine at The Society of Art, and in Boston at The Museum of Fine Arts, where he and his good friend Edmund Tarbell established it as a top-notch institution. He studied art in Boston at the Museum School of Fine Arts, and in 1883 in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Academie Julian* during the French Impressionism movement.... Read full biography
Frank Weston Benson - Art for Sale (5 available)
Deer River, Alabama
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1924
Size:13.25" x 20.25"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
In 1924 Benson traveled to Mobile, Alabama, to visit his daughter Elisabeth, who had married a plantation owner’s son. He produced only six watercolors during this trip, one of which is Deer River, Alabama.
Mrs. Robert Jones Clark and Her Children
Type:Painting
Year:1905
Size:50.25" x 40.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
signed F.W. Benson and dated 1905, lower right
New
A Northwest Day
Type:Painting
Year:1934
Size:36.25" x 44.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
signed F. W Benson and dated 34, lower left bears original frame
My Little Girl
Type:Painting
Year:1895
Size:44.38" x 36.06"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated