Biography from Wallace Gallery:
| Franklin Bennett hailed from East Marion, Long Island. As a young man, Franklin Bennett studied with Whitney Hubbard and Caroline Bell. Bennett briefly accompanied the Peconic Bay Impressionists on painting excursions. He also participated in an exhibition at the National Arts Club where he won a prize in 1928.
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Biography provided by Southold Historical Society,Southold, NY:
Landscape painter, sculptor, and etcher, he was born George Franklin Bennett Jr. in Greenport, Long Island, New York on January 5, 1908. Bennett traveled to California and was a resident of Oakland in the late 1930s, where he lived and worked for several years. Later, he returned to his hometown, and maintained a studio called Driftwood Manor (1939). After World War II, he once again returned to Long Island and lived the remainder of his days among family and friends in East Marion, New York.
Among his family and friends he was known as Jud.
Bennett died in 2005 in Greenport.
Studied: Art Students League, New York; Whitney M. Hubbard; Pratt Institute, New York
Exhibited:
New Haven Paint & Clay Club, CT, 1925 (with William S. Davis & Whitney Hubbard); Society of Independent Artists, NY, 1926; Holt Galleries, NY, Spring 1928; The City Club, NY, 1928; Holt Galleries, NY, Winter 1928 (with Matilda Brown); Exhibition at Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., Chicago, IL, 1928; Middle Western Museum Circuit Traveling Exhibition to Milwaukee, WI, Grand Rapids, MI, Mukegan, MI, Madison, WI, and Green Bay, WI, 1928-29; National Arts Club, NY, 1928 (prize), 1929; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1930; possibly Cronyn & Lowndes Galleries, NY, 1930’s; Society of Independent Artists, Buffalo, NY, (u.d.); School of Fine Arts, Yale University, CT, (u.d.); Art Students League, NY, (u.d.); Riverside Museum, NY, (u.d.); Women’s Club of New Rochelle, NY, (u.d.); Oakland Art Gallery, CA, (u.d.); ‘Aftermath of Combat’ Exhibition, Long Island, NY, (u.d.)
In:
National Arts Club, NY; Southold Historical Society, Southold, NY; Randolph Macon College, VA.
Sources:
WWW (1940-41)
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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