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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his first name of James, had childhood education at several New York and Ohio military academies, but at age nine, was withdrawn because of severe inflammatory rheumatism.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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   Publications  Book References:  65
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Carroll Beckwith
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The Explorers Club December 2004 Peck, Robert McCracken Yes
American Art Review Theodore Robinson at Giverny October 2004 Johnston, Sona Yes
The Magazine Antiques Margaret/Raymond Horotitz Collectio January 1999 Cikovsky, Nicolai Jr. Yes
American Art Review American Works on Paper December 1996 Price, Charles Yes
65 Book References for James Carroll Beckwith
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 L'Enfant, Julie Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family 400 Yes
2011 McCullough, David The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 558 No
2010 Hedgpeth, Don Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun 360 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2000 Fine Art Dealers Association Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1996 Burns, Sarah Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America 380 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Van Hook, Bailey Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914 287 No
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1992 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 282 Yes
1992 Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 286 Yes
1991 Weinberg, H Barbara The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers 295 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Bolger, Doreen (others) American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art 247 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Pisano, Ronald G Idle Hours Americans at Leisure 1865-1914 155 Yes
1988 Riehlman, Franklin; Glen C. Peck The American Spirit: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from 1817-1987 H V Allison Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 54 Yes
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Keyes, Donald D The Genteel Tradition: Impressionist and Realist Art from the Iran and Nancy Koger Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 101 Yes
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Sellin, David / J K Ballinger Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 229 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 Yes
1979 Maurice Sternberg, Galleries The American Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1978 Trumble, Alfred Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists 139 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis American Art at the Century 0 No
1977 Sheldon, George William Recent Ideals of Americn Art 176 No
1977 Weinberg, H Barbara (intro) Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11) 240 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1957 Mount, Charles Merrill John Singer Sargent 371 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1922 Kelby, William Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society 80 Yes
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1893 Kurtz, Charles (editor) The Art Gallery Illustrated World's Columbian Exposition 383 No
1889 Van Dyke, John C How To Judge A Picture Familiar Talks in the Gallery 168 No
1886 J B Lippincott Company American Art From American Figure Painters 100 No
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