By the time Frank W. Benson painted Children in the Woods in 1898, he was already recognized as a gifted teacher, a sought-after portraitist, a painter of wide-ranging subjects, and the artist who would later earn the title of “America’s Most Medaled Painter.” Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1862, Benson showed exceptional artistic talent from an early […]

Christies will auction this piece on January 23, 2025 In 1889 Frank W. Benson’s close friend Joseph Lindon-Smith invited Frank and his new wife Ellen to visit him in Dublin, New Hampshire, a small summer colony that was growing around the shores of the lake at the foot of Mt. Monadnock. The mountain was a

Two Boys in a Boat is a quick oil study of George Benson and his close friend Henry Chaplin. The boys were inseparable, spending their days  together collecting arrowheads, hunting, bird watching, sailing or rowing the Benson’s many boats and going on “rambles.”  It was Henry’s father Heman Chaplin who first introduced the Bensons to

“My Little Girl” currently for sale Frank W. Benson once said that he was delighted when his “home grown models” began to arrive.  Of his four children, his oldest Eleanor was the child he used most often as a model.  There exist at least 16 paintings of her.  This is the only one that is a true portrait.

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Faith Andrews Bedford to speak via Zoom, Mar. 7 at 7 p.m. EST As a boy, Frank W. Benson spent every free moment tramping the marshes surrounding his boyhood in home in Salem, Massachusetts and sketching the birds that filled them. His first painting, at age 16, was of a snipe. Almost 70 years later, his last

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 have always been kept in a climate controlled vault. Please contact me regarding how you can obtain some of these prints for yourself.

By 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 journalists dubbed “America’s most medalled artist,” was in great demand as a portraitist. His sparkling, sun-drenched paintings of his children at their summer home on Maine’s North