Frank Weston Benson

Frank Weston Benson (March 24, 1862 - November 15, 1951) was an American Impressionist artist. Benson was a member of the Ten American Painters.

Eleanor Holding a Shell, 1902, by Frank W. BensonHe was born in Salem, MA. In 1879, he began study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later at the Academie Julian in Paris, France. Upon return to America, he would become an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His paintings often depict his daughters outdoors at Benson's summer home on the island of North Haven, ME. He also did a series of paintings and etchings of wildfowl.


 

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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