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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Frank W. BENSON (1862–1951, artist)

[Salmon].

Published: [1922]

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Frank W.  BENSON (1862–1951, artist)  

[Salmon]. [No date but 1922]. Original drypoint etching on a zinc plate, image size: 3 9/10 x 4 15/16in; 100 x 126mm., signed in pencil ‘Frank W. Benson’ lower left below the image, sheet size: 7 ½ x 8 5/8ins; 190 x 219mm.

Condition: light toning & matt burn, but otherwise excellent.

Unnumbered, but the edition is limited to just 67 examples. Paff #212.

Frank Weston Benson “is regarded as one of America’s premier artists. His reputation was established at the turn of the twentieth century by his numerous awards and by high demand for his impressionist paintings. Benson’s popularity was further secured when he began to produce wildfowling art and a prodigious number of intaglio prints.Over the years, only a small part of his reputation could be attributed to his angling art. From the early 1920s to his death in 1951, Benson produced more than two hundred oils, watercolors, and etchings of salmon and trout fishing. Even today, very little acclaim is given to this facet of his sporting art. Yet his angling art is a clear reflection of the special character and personality of the artist and of his enormous skills as a sportsman….Benson’s angling art differed significantly from others in that many of his paintings did not include a fisherman. When an angler was present, the image was small. Benson was in fact more likely to paint those who worked on the river as a guide, cook, or porter. Another common motif was simply a canoe or two, clear symbols of an angling scene.Benson’s angling art is prodigious. Research has identified 110 paintings and twenty-six etchings that clearly refer to salmon riverscapes (twenty additional images could be classified as related riverscapes). There are thirteen paintings and eight etchings that depict trout streamscapes (he did twenty-nine additional paintings as related streamscapes).” (American Museum of Fly Fishing)

  • Size: 100 x 126mm
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