Beverly Benson Seamans

Beverly Benson Seamans was born in Boston October 31, 1928 and grew up in Cohasset, MA. She attended Sweet Briar College and then entered the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, one of whose founders and teachers was her great uncle, Frank W. Benson. Marine painter John P. Benson (grandfather) encouraged Beverly to pursue her artistic endeavors and hung her Christmas drawings on his studio walls. At the Museum School she took sculpture lessons from Abate and she studied with George Demetrios of Rockport. 

Seamans is well known for her sculptures in bronze and marble of children and wildlife. During the 1980s she began to concentrate on sculpting seabirds, observing birds, mammals and other animals in their natural habitats along the New England coast line. She uses two foundries for bronzes (Nicci Foundry in Rome, Italy and the Tallix Foundry in Peekskill, New York). She has won numerous awards for sculpture and she is a member of the National Sculptors Association of New York, the National Sculpture Society, N.E. Sculptors Association, Copley Society (Boston), Cambridge AA, the Rehoboth Beach Art League (Maryland) and the Marblehead Arts Association. Seamans has had one-woman shows at the Marion Arts Association (1971), Essex Institute of Salem (1973), the Boston Museum of Science (1976) and the Peabody Museum (1979-1980). She works in ceramic, marble, silver and bronze (lost wax technique).