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THBFrank W. Benson, The Thoroughfare Watercolor
Lot 94
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Arader Galleries
1308 Walnut Street
King of Prussia, PA 19406
United States
Arader Galleries proudly celebrates over 40 years in the business of important, antique works on paper, paintings and rare books. W. Graham Arader III began his collection of rare maps, atlases and Americana while an undergraduate at Yale University, and today that passion has grown into one of the ...Read more
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The Thoroughfare. Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951). Watercolor on paper, c.1922. Signed and dated lower left: "F.W. Benson / 22." 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches. Provenance: the artist; to Mrs. Edward Alford or Ms. Muriel G. Saltonstall; private collection, New York, until 2010 Related works: Pulpit Harbor, Maine [The Thoroughfare], watercolor on paper, 14 ¾ x 21 ½ inches (formerly with Berry-Hill Galleries, New York); Fox Island Thoroughfare, Maine, 1923, watercolor on paper, 14 ½ x 20 inches (private collection). At the turn of the twentieth century, Frank Benson was emerging as a major American Impressionist. In 1897 he joined the Ten American Painters, an influential new exhibiting group that included Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf. Along with Edmund Tarbell, his fellow instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Benson was also developing the elegant Boston School style, which they passed on to a generation of students. Benson first visited the island of North Haven, in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, in 1900, and returned to rent a property on the western tip of the island, Wooster Farm, in 1901. Most of the artist’s iconic, sun- filled depictions of his family were painted here in the following years, and Benson bought Wooster Farm in 1906. The barn became his studio, and a tennis court was added next to it; Benson also renovated the old house, which was built around 1795, restoring some of the interior to approximate its original appearance. Situated on an narrow strip of land, Wooster Farm has views west across Penobscot Bay, with the coast near Camden just visible in the distance, and south across the narrow Fox Islands Thoroughfare to the neighboring island of Vinalhaven. Benson regularly used the views as backdrops for his figure paintings, and in the 1920s, when he took up watercolors, he occasionally recorded them on their own, as in our depiction of The Thoroughfare. Probably painted on the spot, from a point not far from the farm, this work shows some of the small islands that punctuate the Thoroughfare, and Vinalhaven in the far distance. A two-man canoe makes its way close to shore in the foreground, sailboats ply the waters beyond the islands, and a column of smoke rises in the center distance from what may be one of the steamers that navigated the Thoroughfare during the 1920s, on the freight route between Boston and Bar Harbor. Benson’s work can be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.
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