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.

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. 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..

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.

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.