Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951)

The Beach Looking West

Details

Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951)
The Beach Looking West
signed and dated 'F.W. Benson '22' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
13¾ x 19¾ in. (35 x 50.2 cm.) (sight)

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1996, lot 1.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

F.A. Bedford, Frank W. Benson: A Retrospective, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1989, p. 104, illustrated.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Guild of Boston Artists, Water Colors by Frank W. Benson, May 1 - 13, 1922.
Cleveland, Ohio, The Gage Gallery, Paintings, Water Colors and Etchings by Frank W. Benson, October 2 - November 1, 1922, no. 7.

Lot Essay

According to Vose Galleries: "Frank W. Benson's The Beach Looking West was painted during a trip the artist made to the Bahamas in the winter of 1922. A group of watercolors from that trip were exhibited at the Guild of Boston Artists the following May. Dubbed by one reviewer, 'the Jewels of Nassau,' the show was a tremendous critical and financial success."

The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Vose Galleries of Boston.

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