Alice Beckington

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Alice Beckington
Born(1868-07-30)July 30, 1868
St. Charles, Missouri
DiedJanuary 4, 1942(1942-01-04) (aged 73)
OccupationArtist

Alice Beckington (July 30, 1868 – January 4, 1942) was an American painter.

Born in St. Charles, Missouri, Beckington studied art at the Art Students League of New York, where she was a pupil of J. Carroll Beckwith;[1] she also studied for a month with Kenyon Cox. She next traveled to Paris for study at the Académie Julian, where her instructors included Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and taking lessons with at his studio.[2][3] She had exhibitions at Paris Salons and Paris Expositions through 1900, including the Salon du Champ de Mars.[3][4] Upon returning to the United States, Beckington began exhibiting work in venues including the Pan-American Exposition, where she received an honorable mention, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where she received a bronze medal, and Poland Spring Exhibition.[1][3][5][6]

She was a founder member of the American Society of Miniature Painters, of which organization she served as president for a number of years, and from 1905 to 1916 she taught miniature painting at the Art Students League.[2] She was also a member, during her career, of the American Federation of Arts and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters.[1] Beckington was among the women artists, including Theodora W. Thayer, Thomas Meteyard, sisters and , and who began summering at Scituate, Massachusetts around the turn of the century, founding a small artistic colony.[2][7] During this time she also spent time with notable feminist author Inez Haynes Irwin, and she and Thayer both painted portraits of Irwin that were exhibited in the Knoedler Gallery.[7] In 1935, she was awarded the medal of honor by the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters.[3]

A portrait by Beckington of her pupil Rosina Cox Boardman is currently in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[8] Three portraits, including one of her mother, are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[9]

Gallery[]

  • Portrait of Miss T., 1898

  • Portrait of Richard Vaughn Lewis. c. 1910

  • Portrait of Mrs. Beckington (the artist's mother), 1913

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Carrie Rebora Barratt; Lori Zabar (1 January 2010). American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-1-58839-357-9.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984. Marquis Who's Who. 2008. ISBN 9781849723978.
  4. ^ "American Exhibitors". The New York Herald (European Edition) (Paris, France). 1894.
  5. ^ "Art Notes". Trenton Sunday Advertiser. 6 April 1905.
  6. ^ Catalogue of the exhibition of fine arts. Buffalo: David Gray, Publishers. 1901. p. 38.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Irwin, Inez Haynes. Adventures of Yesterday. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University: Unpublished. pp. 528–531.
  8. ^ "Rosina Cox Boardman by Alice Beckington / American Art". Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Collection". Retrieved 29 January 2017.


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