On opening weekend of the Farnsworth Art Museum's exhibition Impressionist Summers, they will host an illustrated lecture about Frank W. Benson's life and work given by scholar and curator, Faith Andrews Bedford at the Strand Theatre. This illustrated lecture will focus on Benson's life and work at his summer home, just a short ferry ride from Rockland and the Farnsworth Art Museum. It was at Wooster Farm, on Maine's North Haven Island that Benson painted almost all of his brilliant, sun-drenched Impressionist paintings, launched his prolific etching career, and began his highly successful watercolor period.
Faith Andrews Bedford is a noted authority on the American Impressionist painter Frank W. Benson. She has written and lectured extensively on the artist and has contributed the lead essays for a number of catalogues including: the Benson retrospective at the Berry-Hill Gallery in New York City in l989, the exhibition of Benson’s sporting art at the Ward Museum in Salisbury, MD in 1996 and the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition “Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist” in 2000 for which she was the guest curator. Her books on Benson include Frank W. Benson American Impressionist and The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson.
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