Frank Weston Benson

Frank Weston Benson, American. (1862 - 1951). 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 studied art in Boston at the Museum School of Fine Arts and in 1883 in Paris with Boulanger and Lefebvre at the Academie Julian during the French Impressionism movement. His early works from the 1880's and the 1890's reflect a more academic style, tightly drawn portraits and well delineated landscapes and seascapes. His summer vacations of this period were spent in New Hamphsire, often times accompanied by his good friend and fellow Boston artist Edmund Tarbell. Frank Benson was a teacher in Portland, Maine at The Society of Art and in Boston at The Museum of Fine Arts. By the early 1900s, Benson continued a very successful career as a member of the Ten American Painters, a prestigious group of early impressionists. "New Hampshire Idyll" Oil on Academy board, 7 1/4" x14 1/8" Signed lower left. Price $

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