Summer

Date: 1890
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1929/1929.6.1_1a.jpg?itok=v0MXHagY width="261" height="321" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/summer-1808"]] || Title: **Summer**

Artist: **Frank W. Benson** Born: Salem, Massachusetts 1862 Died: Salem, Massachusetts 1951

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127.1 x 101.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of John Gellatly

Accession: 1929.6.1 || Artists have often used allegories of the seasons to suggest a stable present and a reliable future in times of dramatic social and economic change, as was the period of the Gilded Age. Benson's wife Ellen Perry Pierson was the model for this elegant depiction of summer, which was painted at the small art colony of Dublin, New Hampshire.
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Benson Biography Benson's Seasons at the Library of Congress
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Artist Biography <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SAAM Collections Page
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