FRANK BESON Lithograph of Eleanor, inscriptions to lower left read ‘ Frank Benson 1907’, subject a young woman sitting on a porch railing overlooking a water view, measures 26 x 22 inches, window measures 25 3/8 x 21 3/8 inches, gold toned composite frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. A sparkling icon of wholesome American girlhood, Frank Weston Benson’s Eleanor depicts the painter’s daughter on the porch of their summer home at North Haven, Maine. Benson won national acclaim for his sunny scenes of healthy children enjoying an outdoor country life, and Eleanor is one of his most beloved images. It was purchased for the MFA’s collection almost immediately after it was finished. At the time, Benson, along with his friend Edmund Charles Tarbell [23.532], was one of the chief instructors of painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also an alumnus of the school who, like many of his contemporaries, went on to