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Broadbills

1919

Frank W. Benson

(American, 1862–1951)
Culture
America
Medium
cancelled copper plate
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist 1921.577
Catalogue raisonné
Paff, 153
Copyright
Reproduced by permission The Frank W. Benson Trust, Faith Andrews Bedford Trustee.
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
A vertically oriented copper plate features a warm, reddish-brown surface bisected by horizontal and vertical dark gray lines, layered with several diagonals. Across this geometric web, clusters of fine, scratched hatching marks and dark smudges scatter, concentrated primarily at the top and right edge. The glint of light highlights the contrast between the plate's smooth, reflective quality and these rough, gestural markings that disrupt its precise linear structure.

Broadbills

1919

Frank W. Benson

(American, 1862–1951)
America

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