Lot Essay
The present work depicts a scene in Dublin, New Hampshire, a small town at the foot of Mount Monadnock, where Benson first traveled in 1889.
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)
Monadnock
Details
FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)
Monadnock
signed 'Frank W Benson.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.
Monadnock
signed 'Frank W Benson.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Estate of the above.
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 7 February 2014, lot 508.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2014.
Private collection, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Estate of the above.
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 7 February 2014, lot 508.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2014.
Literature
F.A. Bedford, S.C. Faxon, B.W. Chambers, Frank W. Benson: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 138, 139, fig. 130, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Chase's Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Frank W. Benson and Edmund C. Tarbell, March 2-14, 1891, no. 6 (as Landscape (Dublin)).
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.
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