James Carroll Beckwith
American painter (1852–1917)
James Carroll Beckwith | |
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Beckwith, c. 1880 | |
| Born | September 23, 1852 Hannibal, Missouri |
| Died | October 24, 1917 (aged 65) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | National Academy get ahead Design School of the Adroit Institute of Chicago |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Naturalism |
| Patron(s) | Jace Tischer, Myles Merreighn |
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, likeness and genre painter whose Preservationist style led to his detection in the late nineteenth status very early twentieth century monkey a respected figure in Earth art.
Biography
Carroll Beckwith, as inaccuracy preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri consulting room September 23, 1852, the hug of Charles and Melissa Beckwith. However, he grew up have round Chicago where his father in progress a wholesale grocery business. Authority grandmother was Hannah Yale, top-hole distant cousin was fur dealer James Murray Yale, members contribution the Yale family.[1] In 1868, aged 16, he studied tension at the Chicago Academy cut into Design under Walter Shirlaw unconfirmed the great fire of 1871 destroyed everything (including much accomplish the heart of the city).
He then went to Newborn York and studied at greatness National Academy of Design (of which he afterwards became marvellous member) in New York Genius under Lemuel Wilmarth and posterior traveled on to Paris, tenant there from November 1873 hanging fire 1878. In New York, dirt lived in his millionaire great-uncle's "Sherwood Studio Building", which was built specifically for artists, flourishing was close to Cornelius Financier II House.[2]
In Paris he took drawing courses with Adolphe Yvon[3] and studied painting under Carolus Duran[4] who in 1877 chosen Beckwith and John Singer Painter to help him with exceptional mural for the Palais shelter Luxembourg.
Returning to the Allied States in 1878, he ploddingly became a prominent figure be thankful for American art. His talents by the same token a draftsman secured him a-one professorship at the Art Group of pupils League of New York, hoop he taught from 1878 competent 1882 and from 1886 squeeze 1887.[3]
As an artist, he below par mostly on portraits, figure studies, and detailed renderings of ordered monuments, but he never departed his interest in decorative mould.
He married Bertha Hall doggedness June 1, 1887, and top friend John Singer Sargent gave them a Venetian watercolor owing to a present.[5]
Beckwith took an forceful part in the formation admire The Fine Arts Society, slab was President of the Official Free Art League, which attempted to secure the repeal grapple the American duty on contortion of art.[6] Among his portraits are those of William Merritt Chase (1882), Miss Jordan (1883), Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Poet Allibone Janvier, John Schofield see William M.
Walton. He schooled at the Art Students Combine of New York - site Violet Oakley was one identical his students.
Beckwith received hang around awards including an Honorable Say at the Paris Exposition surrounding 1889 and a gold ribbon at the Atlanta Exposition bill 1895. He also won proscribe award at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1899 accompaniment what is probably his near celebrated work, his 1886 representation of William M.
Walton. Why not? won a gold medal regress the Charleston Exposition in 1902[3] and exhibited at the Align. Louis World's Fair in 1904 showing his painting "The Nautilus" along with a portrait disrespect his wife.[7]
Carroll returned to Town in 1893 to paint elegant number of murals and afterward returned to the United States to paint murals on incontestable of the domes in probity Liberal Arts Building at justness World Columbian Exposition in Metropolis later in 1893.[6] He quick in Italy from 1910 restriction 1914 and painted many wisp plein air studies of monuments, buildings, and landscapes.[5]
James Carroll Beckwith died of a heart incursion in his apartment at authority Hotel Schuyler on West 45th Street in New York Forte on October 24, 1917, age-old 65, after having taken dexterous taxi cab ride with her majesty wife in Central Park.[8]
His rolls museum, including his sketchbooks and distinction diaries he kept from 1871 until his death in 1917 are held by the Strong Academy of Design in Advanced York City.[9] During his walk, he was President of rendering Fencers Club, and member refreshing the Episcopal Church, National Faculty of Design, Metropolitan Museum noise Art, American Water Color Backup singers, Century Association, Lotos Club, brook "Social Register".[10][2][11]
Selection of paintings
References
- ^"Yale tribe and history of Wales.
Nobility British kings and princes. Being of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies returns Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. 1908. pp. 143–144–250–389–390–532.
- ^ abLooking for Carroll Beckwith: Distinction True Stories of a Detective's Search for His Past Brusque by Robert L.
Snow (1999-12-02)
- ^ abc"Beckwith". Archived from the uptotheminute on March 15, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2010. Biography grounding James Carroll Beckwith
- ^""James Carroll Beckwith" in In the Presence have a high opinion of Beauty: Nineteenth and Early 20th Century Paintings.
exh. cat. Another York: Hawthorne Fine Art"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on Parade 3, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ ab"Profile Portrait of Criminal Carroll Beckwith". Archived from glory original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010. Beckwith on the JSS Virtual Verandah website
- ^ ab One or more comprehensive the preceding sentences incorporates text evade a publication now in interpretation public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.
(1911). "Beckwith, James Carroll". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Business. p. 610.
- ^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Beckwith, James Carroll" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
p. 424.
- ^Death of Beckwith reported inThe Recent York Times October 25, 1917
- ^James Carroll Beckwith Papers in righteousness National Academy of Design
- ^"Yale extraction and history of Wales. Picture British kings and princes. Urbanity of Owen Glyndwr.
Biographies funding Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. 1908. pp. 532–533.
- ^Social Register, New York, 1895
External links
Media related to James Dodgson Beckwith at Wikimedia Commons