Frank Weston Benson (1862–1951)

FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862–1951)
Against the Morning Sky, 1922
Oil on canvas, 60 x 44 1/2 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower left): F. W. Benson 1922; (at lower right): To G.R.B.

RECORDED: Faith Andrews Bedford, Frank Benson: American Impressionist (New York: Rizzoli, 1994), p. 189 illus. in color

EXHIBITED:  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January 27–March 17, 1929, 124th Annual Exhibition // United States Pavilion, Venice, Italy, May 4–November 4, 1930, XVII Biennale di Venezia // Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September–November 1992 // Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, December 1992–February 1993 // The Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, June-August 1992; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii, September–October 1993; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, November 1993–January 1994; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, January–March 1994; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April-June 1994, Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection, no. 8, pp. 55, 58–60 illus. in color

EX COLL:  the artist, and by descent in the family; (possibly) [R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago]; Richard and Mary Jo Pfeil, Chicago; to [Spanierman Gallery, New York]; to private collection, 1995 until the present