The gunner

The gunner

Item Information

Title:
The gunner
Description:
Malcolm Salaman identified "The Gunner" as a "self-portrayal" in a monograph on Frank Benson published in 1925. Since that time the error has been repeated by other writers. Mr. Benson, however, in a letter to his friend Dan Henderson, identified the subject as Tom Nickerson, whom he also portrayed in "Old Tom" (Ordeman #246). Tom Nickerson was a handyman who worked for Mr. Benson, and his brothers-in-law, Edward Pierson and Maurice Richardson, who shared ownership of "The Farm," a house on Nauset Marsh near Eastville on Cape Cod, which they bought in 1892.
Artist:
Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951
Name on Item:
F.W.B.
Date:
1915
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Portrait prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Hunters
Game bird hunting
Wetlands
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 26 x 20 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Ordeman: 52
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Ordeman, John T. "Frank W. Benson's etchings, drypoints and lithographs, an illustrated and descriptive catalogue." Hickok-Bockus, 1994, Summit, New Jersey.
Notes (object):
Published state. The gunner's right hand is shaded with oblique parallel lines from right to left. The broken line of the gun-barrel is partly filled in, and the distant marshes are darkened. Reproduced. Four printing trials and fifty signed and numbered proofs, on Shogun paper and thick Japanese vellum.
Identifier:
18_16_000099
Barcode:
36666003909252