ID 1119048
Lot 296 | FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
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.
| Artist: | Frank Benson (1862 - 1951) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | 20th Century Realism |
| Category: | Drawings |
| Artist: | Frank Benson (1862 - 1951) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | 20th Century Realism |
| Category: | Drawings |
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