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John Prentiss Benson

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John Prentiss Benson (1865 - 1947) was active/lived in Maine, Massachusetts.  John Benson is known for Marine, genre-frontier, mural.

John Prentiss Benson (1865-1947) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the second son in a prominent Salem family.  Both John and his older brother Frank showed artistic promise at an early age.  Frank rather quickly acquired a reputation as an artist, while John, who was encouraged to pursue what was then considered a more reliable career, chose architecture.

After study in Paris in the early 1880s, he returned to the U.S. to practice his craft, designing homes, hospitals, schools and other public buildings. By the 1920s, his own creative reputation as an architect having been well established, John Benson put aside his drafting tools for good and turned at last to being the artist he had wanted to be since boyhood. In 1925 he and his wife bought a home in Kittery, Maine. With Maine as his home base, he continued painting, full-time now, mostly marinescapes, but also landscapes, portraits, murals, and decorative screens.

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17 Book References for John Prentiss Benson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Baker, Nicholas and Margaret M. Betts John Prentiss Benson American Marine Artist 136 Yes
2007 Baker, Nicholas J. (Editor) The Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume Three) 280 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Baker, Nicholas J (Editor) The Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume Two) 376 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Baker, Nicholas J (Editor) The Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson (Volume One) 366 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Brewington, M V and Dorothy The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum 530 Yes
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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