James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith (born September 23, 1852 in Hannibal , † October 24, 1917 in New York City ) was an American painter, whose Impressionist style made him an influential painter in his home country. He completed his training partly in Europe, one of his teachers was Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran and he was a close friend of John Singer Sargent .
Life
James Carroll Beckwith was born in Hannibal , Missouri, USA. His father was NM Beckwith, who headed the American committee that coordinated American participation in the Paris World's Fair of 1867. Carroll Beckwith grew up in Chicago, where his father started a wholesale business. In 1868 he began to study art at the Chicago Academy of Design under the direction of Walter Shirlaw. In 1871 he went to New York to study at the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth . From November 1873 to 1878 he went to Europe to continue his education in Paris.
In Paris he took drawing lessons from Adolphe Yvon and became a student of Carolus-Duran. Carolus-Duran selected Beckwith and John Singer Sargent to help him create a mural for the Palais du Luxembourg . A close friendship developed between Beckwith and Sargent, which also lasted for the period that Beckwith spent in the United States.
James Caroll Beckwith returned to the United States for the first time in 1878. There he quickly developed into an important figure in the US art scene. His ability as a draftsman secured him a professorship at the Art Students League of New York , where he taught from 1878 to 1882 and then again from 1886 to 1887. Between 1882 and 1886 he stayed in Europe again. James Carroll Beckwith married Bertha Hall on June 1, 1887. His friend John Singer Sargent gave him one of his Venetian watercolors as a wedding present.
Beckwith played an active role in founding the Fine Arts Society and was President of the National Free Art League, which had set itself the goal of abolishing the duty that had to be paid on the introduction of works of art. Personalities portrayed by Beckwith included William Merritt Chase (1882), Miss Jordan (1883), Mark Twain , Theodore Roosevelt , Thomas Allibone Janvier , John McAllister Schofield, and William M. Walton . Beckwith also taught at the Art Students League of New York , where Violet Oakley was one of his students.
Beckwith received a number of awards throughout his life. Beckwith received an honorable mention during the Paris World's Fair of 1889 and a gold medal at the Cotton States and International Exhibition in Atlanta in 1895. At the World's Fair in Paris in 1899, he received a gold medal for what is probably his best-known portrait, the portrait of William M. Walton, a Texas attorney. In 1902 he won a gold medal at the World's Fair in Charleston and showed his painting The Nautilus and a portrait of his wife during the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair . In 1893 Carroll Beckwith returned to Paris to do a number of wall paintings and then carried out similar work in the United States. From 1910 to 1914 he lived in Italy, where he carried out numerous studies of monuments, buildings and landscapes.
In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
James Carroll Beckwith died of a heart attack in New York City on October 24, 1917. His papers, his sketches and his diary, which he had kept from 1871 until his death, are now in the National Academy of Design in New York City, where he was elected a full member ( NA ) in 1894 .
Selection of works
Woman with Guitar
Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit , c. 1901.
Sylvan toilet , c. 1898
A wistful look .
Mark Twain , 1890.
Bassin de Neptune Versailles .
L'empereur .
The Palace of the Popes and Pont d'Avignon .
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ a b c Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography of James Carroll Beckwith
- ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 88
- ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Beckwith on the JSS Virtual Gallery website
- ^ Members: J. Carroll Beckwith. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 15, 2019 .
- ^ [1] Message from Beckwith Tod in The New York Times of October 25, 1917
- ^ [2] James Carroll Beckwith Papers in the National Academy of Design
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Beckwith, James Carroll NA 1894 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 17, 2015)
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| SURNAME | Beckwith, James Carroll |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hannibal |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1917 |
| Place of death | New York City |