GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Standing on a grassy hill, an attractive young brunette woman-- seen entirely in profile-- shades her eyes from the bright summer sun with the brim of her large hat. The model is the artist's daughter Elizabeth, who married Charles M.A. "Max" Rogers in 1914, and the setting may be a hillside near the family's farm on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. That her father inscribed "To Elizabeth and Max/F.W. Benson 1914" in the lower right corner of the painting strongly suggests that it was his wedding gift to the couple.
Frank Benson was one of the most important American painters working in Boston at the turn of the century and was highly regarded for his pastel renderings of female figures in domestic interior or brightly lit exteriors. In 1897, he joined forces with Edmund Tarbell, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, and six other impressionists to form The Ten American Painters, who exhibited together from 1898 to 1918.
Excerpt from
Sue Canterbury, DMA label copy (10.2015.1), July 2015
NOTES
I am submitting this online content, despite it being mostly incomplete, because I reviewed and tagged the object in the process of working on other works in the gallery. It is not part of our permanent collection and therefore is not covered under the current online collection policy.
Because the object number will change if this object is ever exloaned or accessioned, I am not using the following rule: Apply to objects with number equals EXLOAN.10.2015.3. I am rewriting the rule to rely on the ObjectID because this is the constant identifier for the TMS record.
Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers, 1915, oil on canvas, 81 x 81.5 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Woman with a Mirror, 1911, oil on canvas, 80.6 x 81 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.42
Lady in the Garden (Femee dans un jardin), by 1912, oil on canvas, 81 x 65.4 cm, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago, IL
And from The Athenaeum-
Blue Interior (also known as Red Ribbon), c. 1912-1913, oil on canvas, 81.28 x 81.28 cm, Virginia museum of Fine Arts
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Martha MacLoed, "For a Limited Time: American Paintings on View from a Dallas Collection," DMA gallery talk, August 5, 2015.
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Americans in Paris, 1860-1900~Read H. Barbara Weinberg's essay about this group of expatriate artists on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
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General Description
Standing on a grassy hill, an attractive young brunette woman-- seen entirely in profile-- shades her eyes from the bright summer sun with the brim of her large hat. The model is the artist's daughter Elizabeth, who married Charles M.A. "Max" Rogers in 1914, and the setting may be a hillside near the family's farm on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. That her father inscribed "To Elizabeth and Max/F.W. Benson 1914" in the lower right corner of the painting strongly suggests that it was his wedding gift to the couple.
Frank Benson was one of the most important American painters working in Boston at the turn of the century and was highly regarded for his pastel renderings of female figures in domestic interior or brightly lit exteriors. In 1897, he joined forces with Edmund Tarbell, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, and six other impressionists to form The Ten American Painters, who exhibited together from 1898 to 1918.
Excerpt from
Sue Canterbury, DMA label copy (10.2015.1), July 2015
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Americans in Paris, 1860-1900~Read H. Barbara Weinberg's essay about this group of expatriate artists on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
Notes
I am submitting this online content, despite it being mostly incomplete, because I reviewed and tagged the object in the process of working on other works in the gallery. It is not part of our permanent collection and therefore is not covered under the current online collection policy.
Because the object number will change if this object is ever exloaned or accessioned, I am not using the following rule: Apply to objects with number equals EXLOAN.10.2015.3. I am rewriting the rule to rely on the ObjectID because this is the constant identifier for the TMS record.
Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers, 1915, oil on canvas, 81 x 81.5 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Woman with a Mirror, 1911, oil on canvas, 80.6 x 81 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.42
Lady in the Garden (Femee dans un jardin), by 1912, oil on canvas, 81 x 65.4 cm, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago, IL
And from The Athenaeum-
Blue Interior (also known as Red Ribbon), c. 1912-1913, oil on canvas, 81.28 x 81.28 cm, Virginia museum of Fine Arts
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
oil
canvas
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
woman
standing
interior spaces
mirror
hairband
vantage point
flowers
flower vases
pink
hat
wives
chair
mantel
stripes
Impressionist
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
AUDIO ASSETS
Martha MacLoed, "For a Limited Time: American Paintings on View from a Dallas Collection," DMA gallery talk, August 5, 2015.
UMO pending
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