Wedding artifacts from kimonos to crowns on exhibit at Peabody Essex Aug 16, 2008
Neither did the impressive marriage proposal - a painted self-portrait framed in a silver locket - sent by an 18-year-old Benjamin West to his beloved, Elizabeth Steele. Steele kept the miniature but rejected West. (Boston Globe)
Basement treasures Apr 19, 2008
But figure sketches and compositional studies in oils can also be highly revealing and attractive, and I notice that among 15 works by the early American Benjamin West there are several of these, quite different in style from his larger finished works. This sort of object reflects the interest the museum has always had at heart: the interest in artistic process. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
11: The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West, which manages to turn the conventions of the mythological painting onto not merely the historical event, but the current event. In a way, each of these choices is a step on a road from stylization and convention to a more aware and awake attempt to engage with the experience of being alive, with what we might call a more "real" vision of the world. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Clermont honors boat that changed the world May 2, 2007
He started a career as a portrait painter, with Benjamin West as his mentor, and he continued painting his whole life. But he added engineering to his repertoire on a visit to Europe, where his patron, Robert Livingston, had been appointed ambassador to France by President Thomas Jefferson. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Fountain's namesake was famed sculptor Feb 7, 2007
Frederick William MacMonnies was born in 1863 in Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. His mother was a relative of famous American painter Benjamin West. In 1880, at the age of 17, MacMonnies began work at the New York City studio of notoriously high-strung artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. (Eufaula Tribune, AL)
Framing America Jul 2, 2006
Notable American talents, including pioneers Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, have done some of their best work in Europe, and slipped seamlessly into its artistic currents. When they returned home or when their European colleagues settled on these shores the work didn't change much. (The State)
History Center sends 'Clash of Empires' exhibit to Ottawa Jun 19, 2006
Courtesy of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Benjamin West painted "American Indian and Family," a scene of Eastern American Indians during the Seven Years' War that depicts a father leaving his family to go to war ... "The major change was the addition of 'The Death of General Wolfe' by Benjamin West, which is pretty much the iconic image from the Seven Years' War in Canada and came from their National Gallery. We attempted to get it but we couldn't.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Society unveils its new wing Apr 29, 2006
" The Boardman House, as the frame structure is now known, stood aside of the building which now houses the New Milford branch of the law firm of Cramer son. "When the last of the two Boardman sisters died in 1922, the society took over the house, and the Boardman sisters had willed much of the furniture to the society as well," Mr. Barlow continued, citing the society's ownership of four original portraits by Ralph Earl (1751-1801), the colonial painter who studied under Benjamin West, one... (New Milford Times, CT)
