User:Leeatwood/Frank Weston Benson

Due to the importance of Frank Weston Benson (Massachusetts 1864?-1951), I wanted to begin a page for him. He was and may still be America's most awarded artist.

After studying at the Academie Julien in Paris he returned to America and was extremely successful as a portrait artist and and impressionist. Resulting financial success allowed him to devote time to his love for the natural world, waterfowling and fishing. He began to portray the natural world in a way that had not been attempted before. He created the genre of the sporting etching, and there has been no one to equal him since. I will continue a discussion of him and his work at a later time.