Atherton Loring Jr.
Artist
Frank Weston Benson
(American, 1862–1951)
Date1906
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 102.2 x 81.3 cm (40 1/4 x 32 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
MarkingsFrame inscribed "19 . . . 06, Carrig-Rohane" on lower edge
Credit LineGift of Stephen B. and Valerie S. Loring and Caroline K. Loring (Mrs. Atherton Loring III)
Object number2006.543
Label TextFrank Weston Benson was a leading figure of a group of Boston-based artists working in an Impressionist idiom, a group often referred to as the “Boston School.” Like his colleagues, Benson specialized in figural subjects in idealized interiors and outdoor settings. This portrait features a young Atherton Loring, Jr. (1900‒1977), from Duxbury, Massachusetts, set against a gently undulating landscape of the artist’s own invention. Loring recalled how he posed for Benson not outdoors but in the artist’s Boston studio, where he was seated on a wooden kitchen chair.ProvenanceDescended with the family of the sitter to Stephen and Valerie Loring, Holden, MAOn View
Not on view
