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Watch Faith Andrews Bedford’s Presentation to Mass Audubon View the recorded lecture here.
In Case You Missed It: Video of Frank W. Benson: Artist, Ornithologist, Conservationist Read More »
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
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
From Painter to Printmaker Read More »
It was my pleasure to speak to the Duxbury Art Association about Frank W. Benson’s deep roots in the area’s art community. Here’s an article from the Duxbury Clipper.
Benson’s Duxbury Legacy Read More »
To celebrate the 100th birthday of the Duxbury Art Association, I will be speaking Wednesday July 26 at 7:30 the Ellison Center for the Arts in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The discussion will cover the first and second exhibitions of the DAA, of which Frank W. Benson was a founder. On July 27th at 4p.m. I’ll
Summer Benson Slideshow/Discussions Read More »
It is March. From the window above my desk, I can see geese heading north making a graceful “V” against the pale spring sky. Some ducks have stopped to rest at the lake on the bottom of the hill. The patterns these migrating wildfowl make as they wing their way to their summer homes remind
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.
Historic Benson Painting Fails to Find a Buyer at Auction Read More »