BENSON, FRANK WESTON ), American painter, was born in Salem (Mass.), March 24, 1862. He was a pupil of Boulanger and of Lefebvre in Paris; won a silver medal at the Paris exhibition (1900) ; the Potter Palmer medal and prize, Chicago (1910) ; Logan prize, Chicago society of etchers (1918) ; William A. Clark prize and Corcoran gold medal (1919), and became a member of the "Ten Americans," and of the national academy of design, New York. In addition to his reputation as a painter, he achieved success with his etchings and wash drawings of wild fowl, a field in which his talent is especially spontaneous and happy. He was one of the decorators of the Congressional library, Washington (D.C.).