ARTIST: Benjamin Franklin Collins (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 1895 - 1981)
TITLE: Autumn Landscape
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Few minor paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 25 x 28 inches / 63 x 71 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
NAME VARIANTS: Ben Collins
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in 1895 in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, Ben Collins studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and became the art director at The Beck Engraving Co. in New York, New York. He was a member of the Philadelphia Artists Alliance and the Art Directors Club. Collins is known for beach scenes (dunes) as well as other landscapes and painting of buildings. Benjamin Franklin Collins lived in Riverton, New Jersey and later in Medford, New Jersey. He enjoyed scene painting, but also did portraits as well. Most of their summers were spent in Ocean City where he did dune paintings, although the Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island was one of his favorite subjects. He studied art at the Museum School in Philadelphia, and soon after began working at Beck Engraving. He became the art director there and designed book covers and did illustrations.