Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
32 x 20 in. (canvas) 37-1/8 x 25-1/2 x 2-5/8 in. (framed, Optium)
Mark Description
Signed and dated in brown oil paint at lower left: F W. Benson 1909
Accession Number
Credit Line
John Herron Fund
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Artist; purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana,{1} now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1911. {1} Included in the Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by American Artists at the John Herron Art Institute, 4 December 1910 -1 January 1911, catalogue no. 253, and purchased out of this exhibition. See Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana, Annual Report, 1911, p. 13.
Gallery Labels
- The figure’s dress provides a blank canvas for Benson’s brushstrokes in dazzling white, pink, and violet, accented by the blue and violet shadows typical of Impressionism.
- The model is the artist’s daughter Eleanor, who often joined her mother and sisters in posing for Benson’s outdoor works around Wooster Farm, their summer retreat in Maine.
- Benson was a key figure in Boston’s art scene, both as a highly successful artist and director of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Like colleagues Edmund Tarbell and William Paxton, his purest Impressionist efforts are depictions of women and children in sun-drenched landscapes.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Whistler to Cassatt - American Painters in France
Denver Art Museum
November 14, 2021 - March 13, 2022
The Early Years of American Impressionism 1880-1990
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
November 4, 2014 - February 1, 2015
The Early Years of American Impressionism 1880-1990
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
July 19, 2014 - October 19, 2014
The Early Years of American Impressionism 1880-1990
Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny
March 29, 2014 - June 29, 2014
Impressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson's North Haven
Farnsworth Art Museum
June 16, 2012 - October 21, 2012
Frank W. Benson: The Impressionist Years
Spaniermand Gallery
May 10, 1988 - June 11, 1988
American Painting in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
South Bend Regional Museum of Art
February 10, 1948 - March 31, 1948
Loan to Indianapolis Public Schools Arsenal Technical High School
Arsenal Technical High School
April 26, 1926 - 1926
Loan to Indianapolis Public Schools, Broad Ripple High School
April 11, 1924 - June 6, 1924
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
December 3, 1910 - January 1, 1911
23rd Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings
Art Institute of Chicago
October 18, 1910 - November 27, 1910
The Early Years of American Impressionism 1880-1900
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
November 4, 1910 - Date Unknown
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