Alice Beckington

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

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

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 Charles Lasar 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 Matilda Lewis and Josephine Lewis, and Mabel Stewart 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]

  • Portrait of Miss T., 1898
  • Portrait of Richard Vaughn Lewis. c. 1910
  • Portrait of Mrs. Beckington (the artist's mother), 1913

References
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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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