The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1567921116
ISBN-13
9781567921113
Publisher
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Imprint
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 19th, 2000
Print length
272 Pages
Dimensions
29.00 x 23.90 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Painting & paintingsIndividual artists, art monographsBiography: general
Ksh 8,450.00
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This text focuses on the aspect of Frank Benson's career that won him international renown, as well as financial prosperity. It also draws on family memories, and private writings and archives to create an intimate portrait of a man who was not only a successful artist, but a consumate sportsman.
Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman’s life.
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