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Benson, Frank
American, 1862-1951
American painter, etcher and teacher. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1880 to 1883 as a student of Otto Grundmann (1844-90) and Frederick Crowninshield (1845-1918). In 1883 he travelled with his fellow student and lifelong friend Edmund C. Tarbell to Paris, where they both studied at the Acad?mie Julian for three years with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. Benson travelled with Tarbell to Italy in 1884 and to Italy, Belgium, Germany and Brittany the following year. When he returned home, Benson became an instructor at the Portland (ME) School of Art, and after his marriage to Ellen Perry Peirson in 1888 he settled in Salem, MA. Benson taught with Tarbell at the Museum School in Boston from 1889 until their resignation over policy differences in 1913.
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Painting ID:: 10743
Lady Trying On a Hat
1904, oil on canvas, The Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design
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Painting ID:: 10742
Mrs. Benjamin Thaw and her Son
1900, oil on canvas, Berry-Hill Galleries at New York
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Painting ID:: 10732
The Sisters
1899, oil on canvas, IBM Corp. at Armonk, New York
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Painting ID:: 10744
Sunlight
1909, oil on canvas, Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Painting ID:: 10745
Girl Playing Solitaire
1909, oil on canvas, Worcester Art Museum at Worcester, Mass
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Benson, Frank
American, 1862-1951
American painter, etcher and teacher. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1880 to 1883 as a student of Otto Grundmann (1844-90) and Frederick Crowninshield (1845-1918). In 1883 he travelled with his fellow student and lifelong friend Edmund C. Tarbell to Paris, where they both studied at the Acad?mie Julian for three years with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. Benson travelled with Tarbell to Italy in 1884 and to Italy, Belgium, Germany and Brittany the following year. When he returned home, Benson became an instructor at the Portland (ME) School of Art, and after his marriage to Ellen Perry Peirson in 1888 he settled in Salem, MA. Benson taught with Tarbell at the Museum School in Boston from 1889 until their resignation over policy differences in 1913.
. Related Artists to Benson, Frank: | George Price Boyce,RWS | charles de brosses | Thomas Daniell | Laura Knight | Henry Scott Tuke |
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