Modern masters of etching: Frank W. Benson: Number 6 book by Frank W. Benson, Malcolm C. Salaman

Frank W. Benson, Malcolm C. Salaman

Published by The Studio, 1925

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Plates are bright and good. Year 1925. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The work of the most original and virile of living American etchers is represented in the following repro-ductions, and in The Gunner (Plate I) we see the man himself. Nor could any other plate of the series more appropriately prelude those most characteristic of the artist, in which he has recorded, with vivid surprises of pictorial beauty and an authentic etcher's mastery, the variously conditioned flight-motions of the diverse fowl that haunt the watery wilds of North America. For, while Frank Benson is as naturally a sportsman as he is instinctively an artist, it is in his sporting pursuit of the wild birds that he finds those rich opportunities for sudden or patient observation of their activities in the air or in the water which suggest the original pictorial motives that distinguish his etch-ings. He loves the wild birds as he knows them with that knowledge born of the open-air naturalist's intimate love of animate nature, yet, we look at his self-portra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern masters of etching: Frank W. Benson: Number 6 book by Frank W. Benson, Malcolm C. Salaman
• Publisher: The Studio
• Publication Date: 1925
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Antiquarian Rare & Collectable