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Frank (E. Francis) Carson (1881 - 1968) was active/lived in Massachusetts, California.  Frank Carson is known for Landscape and marine painting, graphics, teaching.

This biography provided by Miraga Siciliano, Senior Art Historian for Hess Fine Art:

Born in Massachusetts in 1881 Frank grew up in a chaotic revolution of independent and new art styles. With a society that devoured art and discovering his own artistic gifts, he enrolled in several schools of art that included his training in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Fenway Art School, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Boothbay Art Colony in Maine.

Throughout his education, he tried to stay true to his many loves, and took up the careers of a writer, a teacher, a critic, and most notably a painter. It appears that Frank Carson had an insatiable thirst to touch the lives of others. He traveled and worked along the New England coast and is noted for working in Bermuda.

Frank Carson's works are boldly colored, some resembling the works of Winston Lawler, Seago, and Paul Gauguin. His developmental growth was encompassed in the transition f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4357 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Frank (E Francis) Carson

   Frank (E. Francis) Carson  Born:  1881 - Waltham, Massachusetts
Died:   1968 - Boston, Massachusetts
Known for:  Landscape and marine painting, graphics, teaching
Name variants:  E Francis Carson

Biography from Hess Fine Art & Auctions

This biography provided by Miraga Siciliano, Senior Art Historian for Hess Fine Art:

Born in Massachusetts in 1881 Frank grew up in a chaotic revolution of independent and new art styles. With a society that devoured art and discovering his own artistic gifts, he enrolled in several schools of art that included his training in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Fenway Art School, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Boothbay Art Colony in Maine.

Throughout his education, he tried to stay true to his many loves, and took up the careers of a writer, a teacher, a critic, and most notably a painter. It appears that Frank Carson had an insatiable thirst to touch the lives of others. He traveled and worked along the New England coast and is noted for working in Bermuda.

Frank Carson's works are boldly colored, some resembling the works of Winston Lawler, Seago, and Paul Gauguin. His developmental growth was encompassed in the transition from Impressionist to Post-Impressionist art. His styles are bold with bold brush strokes; his colors could almost be titled Expressionist. With the sweep of artistic freedom and expression, Frank Carson's work became a favorite among Americans.

During his lifetime he traveled across the country having several solo exhibits including a show at the Washington Art Club, The University of Washington, the Copley Society, and the Brooklyn Museum.

He was also included in group exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1919-1931), the Berkley League of Fine Art in Massachusetts (1924), the Boston Art Club, The Buffalo Fine Art Academy, the Newport Art Association, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Provincetown Art Association, the Gloucester Society of Artists, the Boston Society of Independent Artists, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Providence Art Club, the Providence Watercolor Club, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Today his works are featured in several private collections such as the Berkley League of Fine Art, The Manchester Historic Association, and the Boston Art Club. His works are also featured in the Colby College Museum of Art and the John H. Vanderpoel Art Association.


Biography from James R Bakker Antiques Inc

E. Francis (Frank) Carson was born in Waltham, MA, on September 8, 1881. Carson first studied at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston, then known as the Normal School.  He then went on to study with Asa Grant Randall at the Commonwealth Art Colony in Boothbay, Maine, the Fenway Art School in Boston, and finally at the Art Students League in New York.  His first one-person show was held in New York at the Petrus Stuyvesant Club in 1917.  The following year Carson founded the Provincetown Art School where he taught from 1918 until 1933.

Carson exhibited annually at the Provincetown Art Association from 1919 to 1934 with the exceptions of 1921, 1927, and 1932. He was a contributing editor of the Lorelei, Journal of Art and Letters published monthly by the artists and writers of Provincetown. That same year he won the first Schneider Prize at the Boston Art Club.

Carson also showed with the Boston Society of Independent Artists. It was here that he was exposed to and influenced by a group known as The Four Boston Painters - Maurice Prendergast, Carl Gordon Cutler, Charles Hovey Pepper, and E. Ambrose Webster, who also ran an art school in Provincetown. Carson not only followed Webster’s color theory but followed in his footsteps to Bermuda where he painted and taught while he escaped the harsh New England winter weather.

Nancy W. Paine Smith refers to Carson as a “star” among the “hundred present” in her 1927 publication, A Book About the Artists Provincetown  Carson also had one-person shows at the Copley Society of Boston, the Washington Art Club, and the University of Washington.  His pieces have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  His last address was 483 Tremont Street in Boston where he died on December 29, 1968. A retrospective of his work was held at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum in 1997.

Submitted by James R. Bakker who curated the 1997 Retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and wrote the catalogue essay.


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