funkelly: Gorgeous! cavetocanvas: Frank Weston Benson, Sunlight, 1909 From the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Frank Benson was a key figure in the vital artistic arena of early 20th-century Boston, a member of a school of painters named for their city. He painted an idealized world that was never ugly or harsh, focusing instead on the lifestyle of genteel New Englanders. His outdoor images, especially those of vibrant young women, were painted in the full spectrum of colors, in bright sunshine. The model in Sunlight is the artist’s daughter Eleanor, who, like her mother and sisters, often posed for Benson’s outdoor works. Enveloped in sunshine, Eleanor’s white dress is crisscrossed with the blue shadows typical of orthodox Impressionism. Even her gesture-left hand raised against the glare-refers to the light that is the painting’s true subject.

funkelly:

Gorgeous!

cavetocanvas:

Frank Weston Benson, Sunlight, 1909

From the Indianapolis Museum of Art:

Frank Benson was a key figure in the vital artistic arena of early 20th-century Boston, a member of a school of painters named for their city. He painted an idealized world that was never ugly or harsh, focusing instead on the lifestyle of genteel New Englanders. His outdoor images, especially those of vibrant young women, were painted in the full spectrum of colors, in bright sunshine. The model in Sunlight is the artist’s daughter Eleanor, who, like her mother and sisters, often posed for Benson’s outdoor works. Enveloped in sunshine, Eleanor’s white dress is crisscrossed with the blue shadows typical of orthodox Impressionism. Even her gesture-left hand raised against the glare-refers to the light that is the painting’s true subject.