DOI issue:
No. 342 (September 1921)
DOI article:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The etchings and dry-points of Frank W. Benson
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0112
THE ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS OF FRANK W. BENSON
"SUMMER YELLOWLEGS." DRY-
POINT BY FRANK W. BENSON
By courtesy of Mr. H. C. Dickins
will give them graphic vitality as his flutter straight for safety, the artist's con-
vision forms its artistic impression of ception will always show in its subtleties
them, at rest or in motion, in relation to of graphic expression that, while the
landscape or waterscape and the ever- sportsman's instinct has been quickened,
moving air just sufficiently indicated for the naturalist's intimate knowledge of the
the living truth of environment. Be it a creatures has been as lovingly concerned
group of winter yellow-legs standing with as the etcher's pictorial impulse. No
reposeful elegance in the shallows, or a artist of the Western world has a surer
quartet of broadbills swimming so leisurely eye than Mr. Benson's for a bird on the
that the water just ripples into caressing wing; indeed, we must look among the
curves, or a brood of ducks in hurry of synthetic drawings of the Far East for any
alarm breaking the surface into acute graphic suggestion of bird-flight corn-
angles ; or be it a bevy of wild geese in parable in artistic truth and beauty. For
flight patterning the sky, with perhaps the sense of design controls always his
separate wheeling motions for pure delight pictorial conception, the poise or motion
of the air, perhaps a scared gregarious of wings appealing to his vision with,
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"SUMMER YELLOWLEGS." DRY-
POINT BY FRANK W. BENSON
By courtesy of Mr. H. C. Dickins
will give them graphic vitality as his flutter straight for safety, the artist's con-
vision forms its artistic impression of ception will always show in its subtleties
them, at rest or in motion, in relation to of graphic expression that, while the
landscape or waterscape and the ever- sportsman's instinct has been quickened,
moving air just sufficiently indicated for the naturalist's intimate knowledge of the
the living truth of environment. Be it a creatures has been as lovingly concerned
group of winter yellow-legs standing with as the etcher's pictorial impulse. No
reposeful elegance in the shallows, or a artist of the Western world has a surer
quartet of broadbills swimming so leisurely eye than Mr. Benson's for a bird on the
that the water just ripples into caressing wing; indeed, we must look among the
curves, or a brood of ducks in hurry of synthetic drawings of the Far East for any
alarm breaking the surface into acute graphic suggestion of bird-flight corn-
angles ; or be it a bevy of wild geese in parable in artistic truth and beauty. For
flight patterning the sky, with perhaps the sense of design controls always his
separate wheeling motions for pure delight pictorial conception, the poise or motion
of the air, perhaps a scared gregarious of wings appealing to his vision with,
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