DOI Heft:
No. 342 (September 1921)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The etchings and dry-points of Frank W. Benson
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0111
THE ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS gestion of spontaneity and inevitability
OF FRANK W. BENSON. BY MAL- which is inherent in the linear synthesis
COLM C SALAMAN a 0 0 °^ t^ie instinctive etcher's conception when
draughtsmanship and craft combine in
ALTHOUGH Mr. Frank W. Benson, the living art of the print. And especially
long before he sought expression is Mr. Benson happy in this, that his
through the etcher's art, had won with his sportsman's temperament leads him to
paint-brush the high place he holds among experiences in the pursuit of wild fowl in
American artists, it is with his etching- their natural environment of great watery
needle and dry-point he is achieving a expanses which provide the very motives
wider and more distinctive reputation on that appeal most to him as an etcher. All
this side of the Atlantic. When he takes the birds that haunt the wilds of the
his copper-plate in hand, he looks at his Atlantic-washed coasts of North America
subject not in the way of the painter, or the reedy marshes, the sandy shallows
but his vision is guided to expression by and the billowy deeps of Upper Canada's
the artistic motive of the authentic etcher, great rivers, are his familiar quarry both
So, whatever his subject, the pictorial as sportsman and etcher ; and the stroke
treatment gives always that vivid sug- of his needle, the scratch of his dry-point,
" BOUND HOME."
BY FRANK W.
ETCHING
BENSON
95
OF FRANK W. BENSON. BY MAL- which is inherent in the linear synthesis
COLM C SALAMAN a 0 0 °^ t^ie instinctive etcher's conception when
draughtsmanship and craft combine in
ALTHOUGH Mr. Frank W. Benson, the living art of the print. And especially
long before he sought expression is Mr. Benson happy in this, that his
through the etcher's art, had won with his sportsman's temperament leads him to
paint-brush the high place he holds among experiences in the pursuit of wild fowl in
American artists, it is with his etching- their natural environment of great watery
needle and dry-point he is achieving a expanses which provide the very motives
wider and more distinctive reputation on that appeal most to him as an etcher. All
this side of the Atlantic. When he takes the birds that haunt the wilds of the
his copper-plate in hand, he looks at his Atlantic-washed coasts of North America
subject not in the way of the painter, or the reedy marshes, the sandy shallows
but his vision is guided to expression by and the billowy deeps of Upper Canada's
the artistic motive of the authentic etcher, great rivers, are his familiar quarry both
So, whatever his subject, the pictorial as sportsman and etcher ; and the stroke
treatment gives always that vivid sug- of his needle, the scratch of his dry-point,
" BOUND HOME."
BY FRANK W.
ETCHING
BENSON
95