FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)

Lot 296
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Lot 296 | FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)
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FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)

Sun Glare

signed and dated 'F.W. Benson/'23' (lower left)

watercolor and pencil on paper

14 ¾ x 21 in. (37.5 x 53.3 cm.)

Executed in 1923.





Provenance

The artist.

Salem Country Club, Peabody, Massachusetts, acquired from the above.

Child's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1989.

Spanierman Gallery, New York.

Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1995.



Literature

Sylvia P. Benson Watercolor list, no. 162.



Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints in the Department of Fine Arts, 1926, p. 78, no. 817.

Washington, D.C., R.G. Dunthorne Gallery, Watercolors by Frank W. Benson, February 1927.



Further Details

We are grateful to Benson scholar Faith Andrews Bedford, author of the biography Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist, The Sporting Art of Frank Benson, and Impressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson's North Haven, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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