Description: Book is in Excellent, Like New condition with no noticeable defects. Selling for my father who was a professional artist and avid art book collector. A beautifully illustrated book devoted to Impressionist Frank W. Benson’s life and work in Maine, where he spent summers creating the sun-drenched paintings that define American plein-air painting. The summer of 2012—the 150th anniversary of Frank W. Benson’s birth—marks the opening of an exhibition organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum focusing on Benson’s life and work at his summer home on North Haven Island, at Wooster Farm. It was there that he painted almost all of his brilliant, light-filled Impressionist paintings, launched his prolific etching career, and began his highly successful watercolor period. Through paintings, both oil and watercolor, drypoints, etchings, and lithographs, many seen here for the first time, this volume illustrates the important ways in which life on North Haven affected Benson’s art. These works, as well as family photographs and new photographs of Wooster Farm taken specially for this book, present not only the art of an immensely talented artist but also an intimate portrait of a dedicated teacher and devoted family man.
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: Liberty Hill, Texas
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Book Title: Impressionist Summers : Frank W. Benson's North Haven
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Individual Artists / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 32.4 Oz
Author: Faith Andrews Bedford
Item Length: 10.1 in
Item Width: 9.1 in
Format: Hardcover
