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Portrait of James Carroll Beckwith

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, American, (July 25, 1844–June 25, 1916)

Creation date: 1904
Creation place: United States

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins
Accession Number: 1937.30
Dimensions: 83 3/8 in. x 48 1/8 in. (211.77 cm x 122.24 cm)
Currently on view

Provenance

Mrs. Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( - December 6, 1937)

Mrs. James Caroll Beckwith, (1904 - )

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, (1904 - 1904)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (December 6, 1937 - )

Label Copy

Born in Hannibal, Missouri, James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917) became an accomplished portrait painter in New York, counting among his subjects William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) and Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909). In J. Carroll Beckwith, Eakins portrays Beckwith in the act of painting, with a brush and palette in his hands, standing before a portrait of his wife, Bertha Beckwith, who was also an artist. On the back of the painting, Eakins wrote, “To Mrs. Carroll Beckwith from her friend Thomas Eakins, 1904.” This work, and the other painting by Eakins in this exhibition, Elizabeth with a Dog, demonstrates the artist’s sensitive portrayal of people in his life and his penchant for dark, Victorian interiors in Philadelphia, the city where he spent most of his life.
Last Updated: 7/24/2017

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

One Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , 1/23/1904 - 3/4/1904

Twenty-seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Artists Society of American Artists , 3/25/1905 - 4/30/1905

Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins The Metropolitan Museum of Art , 11/5/1917 - 12/3/1917

Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , 12/23/1917 - 1/13/1918

American Portraits in California Collections Santa Barbara Museum of Art , 4/6/1966 - 5/8/1966

Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums The San Diego Museum of Art , 11/10/2012 - 2/10/2013

Art of the United States The San Diego Museum of Art , 3/24/2013 - 10/22/2013

Modern and Contemporary , 12/21/2013 - 00/00/00

Art of the Americas San Diego Museum of Art , 12/23/2013 - 00/00/00

American Art The San Diego Museum of Art , 11/26/2016 - 8/15/2021

Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820-1920 , 2/12/2021 - 10/3/2021

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Mr. Martin E. Petersen. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1993
Page Number: 148

Mr. Reginald Poland. A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870 San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1947
Page Number: 11

Lloyd Goodrich. Thomas Eakins Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982
Page Number: 53, 55

Paul F. Karlstrom. Archives of American Art Journal Archives of American Art. Washington, D.C., 1982
Page Number: 37

Mr. Martin E. Petersen. Western Art Digest Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West. Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 1986-August 1986
Page Number: 86-87, Figure Number: 86

Doreen Bolger and Claire M. Barry. The Magazine Antiques Brant Publications, Inc.. New York, New York, March 1994
Page Number: 411, Figure Number: 1

Bryson Burroughs. Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York, October 1917
Page Number: 12, no. 50, Figure Number: 50

Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1917
Page Number: 33, 94 no. 105, Figure Number: 33

Gordon Hendricks. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins Grossman Publishers. New York, New York, 1974
Page Number: 280

Gordon Hendricks. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins Grossman Publishers. New York, New York, 1974
Page Number: 316, no. 3, Figure Number: 3

Elizabeth Milroy. Guide to the Thomas Eakins Research Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996
Page Number: 31

Helene Barbara Weinberg. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York, Winter 1994-Winter 1995
Page Number: 38, 39, 40, Figure Number: 34

Thomas W. Leavitt. American Portraits in California Collections Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California, 1966
Page Number: cat. no. 46

Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.. International Studio The International Studio, Inc.. New York, New York, January 1930
Page Number: 48

Ms. Nancy Mowll Mathews. Art in the USA: 978-84-95216-53-3. Guggenhiem, 2008
Page Number: 137, Figure Number: 137

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Signature, Lower left:

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