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Francis (Frank) Golden

Francis (Frank) Golden (1916 - 2008) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Francis Golden is known for Plein-aire painting, magazine illustration-field and stream.

Francis Golden (1916-2008):

Francis ("Frank") Golden was born in 1916 in Adams, Massachusetts and studied at Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston (graduated, 1939). In that year he traveled with a group of artists who had joined an artist's union. Golden settled in Chicago, moved to New York, then Connecticut and finally to Massachusetts.

Golden has spent his life painting en plein aire, creating outdoor paintings in watercolor that editors of various magazines quickly bought and used as illustrations. "I became known as an illustrator," he said in 1999, "but my work is not illustrative! I'm a painter who paints because he has to paint in order to stay sane!" Nevertheless, his watercolors became some of the most popular images in sports magazines and he by 1974 he was highly respected as a wildlife and sporting scene painter probably because with enthusiasm and gusto he paints what he knows well with competence and virility.

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