The month of March is a time of migration. The skies are full of geese heading north making a graceful “V” against the pale spring sky. The patterns these migrating wildfowl make as they wing their way to their summer homes remind those who admire Frank Benson’s art of the beautiful wash drawings that he […]
When Frank W. Benson returned from two years of study at the Academie Julian in Paris he hung out his shingle and began painting portraits as quickly as he could. He’d just become engaged to a childhood friend, Ellen Peirson, and needed to prove to her widowed mother that he could support a wife and family.
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