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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
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Boston School of Painting
- •Classical Realist
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Oriental Influence
- •Orientalism, Orientalist
- •Outdoor Sporting Scenes, Field and Stream, Hunting
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
- •Waterfowl
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Boston Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •Guild of Boston Artists
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •New England Watercolor Society/Boston Watercolor Society
- •Society of American Artists, New York
- •Society of American Etchers/Brooklyn Society of Etchers
- •The Ten/Ten American Painters
Art Teacher
- •Gustave Boulanger
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
- •Otto Grundmann
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Duck Stamp Design for Ducks Unlimited
- •Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
- •Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
- •Gerald Peters Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •Wildlife Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Guild of Boston Artists-
- •Lotos Club
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts