Frank Weston Benson
(1862–1951) American painter (1862–1951)
Frank Weston Benson (USA, 1862–1951) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Frank Weston Benson belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Frank Weston Benson was born in Salem and died in Salem. Frank Weston Benson trained at Académie Julian and School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Wikidata associates Frank Weston Benson with Impressionism. Frank Weston Benson became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ten American Painters, and American Academy of Arts and Letters. Frank Weston Benson was awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The students included Bertha Coolidge.
One of the best-known works is ‘Sunlight’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 84 works by Frank Weston Benson with free images. The dated works span the years 1884–1923. Works by Frank Weston Benson are held by several collections, among them Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Worcester Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Eugène Jansson, Gustav Klimt, James Jebusa Shannon, Arthur Bowen Davies, and Robert Reid.