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James Carroll Beckwith

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James Carroll Beckwith (1852 - 1917) was active/lived in New York, Illinois, Missouri / France.  James Beckwith is known for Portrait, genre, mural and landscape painting.

James Carroll Beckwith was a landscape, portrait and genre painter whose style ranged from academic to impressionist.  He is best known for portrait and genre subjects, was skilled in mural painting, and was highly respected as an art educator. 

Born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1852, Beckwith, who intensely disliked his first name of James, had childhood education at several New York and Ohio military academies, but at age nine, was withdrawn because of severe inflammatory rheumatism.  The remainder of his life was troubled by ill health.

He moved with his parents to Chicago, and, showing art talent, was enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Design.  His good friend was Frederick Stuart Church, and they took instruction together drawing from the antique under the tutelage of Conrad Diehl.

In 1871, Beckwith's father's merchant business was destroyed by the Chicago fire, so the family moved to New York City.  There Beckwith enrolled in the antique   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17591 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for James Carroll Beckwith


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Academic Realism, Munich School
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Central Park, New York City
  • Europe
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • Art Students League, New York
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Pastel Society of America, Society of Painters in Pastel
  • Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
  • Charles Carolus-Duran Atelier
  • Conrad Diehl
  • Lemuel Wilmarth
  • Leon Bonnat, Bonnat Atelier, Paris
  • Walter Shirlaw
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
  • Chicago Academy of Design, Student, later Art Institute of Chicago
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Neville-Strass Collection
  • Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Pastel Specialty
  • Sherwood Studio Building, New York, Resident
Artist Colony
  • Onteora Club, Tannersville, New York
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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