The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson

by Faith Andrews Bedford

Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567921116
• ISBN13: 9781567921113
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.1" x 9.2"