Frank W. Benson is best known for his impressionist “plein-air” paintings. He was focused on capturing light. He once said, “I follow the light; where it comes from, where it goes.”
Benson, one of the best printmakers of the 20th century, is credited with making wildlife prints a distinct genre. To one of his daughters he said, “The whole process from the bare plate to the finished print is full of fascinating possibilities and possible failures.”
Etching led Benson to lithography; perhaps his rarest medium. He used his imagination, coupling it with personal experience and solid principals of composition—what he called “design”—to convey his birds and sportsmen with such great appeal.
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…
ReadBy 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…
ReadThis 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…
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