Frank W. Benson Prints
1862–1951 · American · American Impressionism
Wall art by Frank W. Benson, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
22 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Frank W. Benson
Frank Weston Benson was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in March 1862 and lived there all his life. He studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and from 1883 to 1885 at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre, and in 1889 he began teaching at the Museum School alongside Edmund Tarbell, the two of them shaping the Boston School of painting. In 1898 he was a founding member of the Ten American Painters, the group of American Impressionists who left the Society of American Artists, and in 1896 he painted murals of the Seasons and the Graces for the Library of Congress. From 1901 his family spent their summers on North Haven island in Maine, and his pictures of his wife and daughters in white on sunlit hilltops won him medals across America and Europe. Later he turned to etchings and watercolours of wildfowl and salmon rivers, and he died in Salem in November 1951. His bright summer pictures suit a sunny room and print with real freshness.