John Prentiss Benson American Marine Artist
2008Baker, Nicholas and Margaret M. Betts
136 pages (color)
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1865 Salem, Massachusetts - 1947 Kittery, Maine. Known for: Marine, genre-frontier, mural.
John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age. Frank... Read full biography
John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age. Frank rather quickly acquired a reputation as an artist, while John, who was encouraged to pursue what was... Read full biography
John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age. Frank rather quickly acquired a reputation as an artist, while John, who was encouraged to pursue what was then considered a more reliable career, chose architecture. After study in Paris in the early 1880s, he returned to the U.S. to practice his craft, designing homes, hospitals, schools and other public... Read full biography
John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age. Frank rather quickly acquired a reputation as an artist, while John, who was encouraged to pursue what was then considered a more reliable career, chose architecture. After study in Paris in the early 1880s, he returned to the U.S. to practice his craft, designing homes, hospitals, schools and other public buildings. By the 1920s, his own creative reputation as an architect having been well established, John Benson put aside his drafting tools for good and turned at last to being the artist he had wanted to be since boyhood. In 1925 he and his wife... Read full biography
John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family. Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age. Frank rather quickly acquired a reputation as an artist, while John, who was encouraged to pursue what was then considered a more reliable career, chose architecture. After study in Paris in the early 1880s, he returned to the U.S. to practice his craft, designing homes, hospitals, schools and other public buildings. By the 1920s, his own creative reputation as an architect having been well established, John Benson put aside his drafting tools for good and turned at last to being the artist he had wanted to be since boyhood. In 1925 he and his wife bought a home in Kittery, Maine. With Maine as his home base, he continued painting, full-time now, mostly marinescapes, but also lands... Read full biography
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The Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume Three)
2007Baker, Nicholas J. (Editor)280 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesThe Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume Two)
2005Baker, Nicholas J (Editor)376 pages (color)Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesThe Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume One)
2003Baker, Nicholas J (Editor)366 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAnnual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings622 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Marlor, Clark S600 pagesDictionary of American Artists
1982Opitz, Glenn372 pagesDictionary of Sea Painters
1980Archibald, E H H455 pages (color)American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)600 pages (color)The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum
1968Brewington, M V and Dorothy530 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1947
1947Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor)685 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages