Early Morning  1899

Bequest of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot [br]Inscription: Lower left: F.W. BENSON Benson’s lifelong love of birds and his appreciation of Japanese design, fashionable in Paris and in Boston as well, are readily apparent in “Early Morning.” Benson had explored the abundant bird life in the marshes near his childhood home in Salem and early on had even aspired to ornithological ...