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.10.2015.1. I am rewriting the rule to rely on the ObjectID because this is the constant identifier for the TMS record.
I edited the geographies associated with Frank Benson. (See object draft for 1986.207 Benson, Untitled (Ducks))
I added the label text to TMS.
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clouds
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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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- Frank Weston Benson, Sunlight, 1909~See the possible pendant for this painting in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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FUN FACTS
- This painting may have been a pendant piece for another painting showing Benson's eldest daughter Eleanor in a similar setting. In Sunlight (1909), Eleanor is also shown upright on a hill top, but she faces toward the right side with her left hand raised to shade her eyes as she peers over the coastline below.
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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
- This painting may have been a pendant piece for another painting showing Benson's eldest daughter Eleanor in a similar setting. In Sunlight (1909), Eleanor is also shown upright on a hill top, but she faces toward the right side with her left hand raised to shade her eyes as she peers over the coastline below.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Frank Weston Benson, Sunlight, 1909~See the possible pendant for this painting in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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.10.2015.1. I am rewriting the rule to rely on the ObjectID because this is the constant identifier for the TMS record.
I edited the geographies associated with Frank Benson. (See object draft for 1986.207 Benson, Untitled (Ducks))
I added the label text to TMS.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
woman
clouds
horizon line
standing
dress
hat
parasol
blue
wind
profile
sunlight
daughter
inscription
gift
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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