Frank Weston Benson - Exhibitions and Shows

Exhibitions and Shows

• 1885 - After the Storm at the Royal Academy in London
• 1889 - National Academy of Design in New York, won first prize for Orpheus
• 1891 - First private show of Benson's work, Chase Gallery, Boston with Edmund C. Tarbell
• 1894 - First known wildfowl exhibition, exhibited Swan Flight
• 1897 - With nine other men, held their own exhibition in New York City
• 1898 - First exhibition as the Ten American Painters in New York City
• 1899 - Second exhibition as the Ten American Painters in New York City, including Children in the Woods, the first Impressionist painting exhibited by Benson
• 1900 - The Sisters was presented at the Paris Exposition Universelle and won a silver medal
• 1904 - First known exhition of a still life by Benson
• 1912 - First known showing of black and white wash drawings, Ten American Painters show
• 1913 - First one-man show devoted to wash drawings of wildfowl, Copley Society of Art, Boston
• 1915 - Benson's etchings were exhibited for the first time, The Guild of Boston Artists
• 1915 - First one-man show devoted to etchings, George Gage Gallery
• 1915 - First one-man show devoted to etchings in New York, Kennedy Galleries
• 1916 - First one-man show devoted to etchings outside of the United States, British Museum
• 1922 - First exhibition of his watercolors in New York, Boston and Cleveland
• 1945 - His last one-man exhibition of etchings at Arthur Harlow & Sons Gallery, New York
• 1950 - His final exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Retroactive exhibitions of his work occurred in 1921 at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1917,. Corcoran Gallery of Art, in 1924 at the Carnegie Institute and the Akron Art Museum, in 1936 at Guy E. Mayer Gallery in New York and in 1938 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Such was its popularity that the exhibition broke the museum's attendance records.