Lot Essay
A similar composition by James Carroll Beckwith executed in oil (Mrs. Clifford Richardson Reading, circa late 1880s) is in the collection of Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Distinguished American Art from a New York Private Collection
James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917)
A Study With Sunlight
Details
James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917)
A Study With Sunlight
signed 'Carroll Beckwith.' (lower left)
pastel on paper
8 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (21.6 x 13 cm.)
Executed by 1890.
A Study With Sunlight
signed 'Carroll Beckwith.' (lower left)
pastel on paper
8 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (21.6 x 13 cm.)
Executed by 1890.
Provenance
Livingston Galleries, New York.
Francis E. Fowler III, Los Angeles, California.
Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1998, lot 1.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.
Francis E. Fowler III, Los Angeles, California.
Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1998, lot 1.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.
Literature
"The Painters in Pastel," New York Sun, May 17, 1890, p. 6.
Exhibited
New York, Hermann Wunderlich & Company, Fourth Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Pastel, May 1-27, 1890, no. 8.
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), December 1, 1999-January 15, 2000, pp. 25, 63, 106, 142, fig. 36, illustrated.
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), December 1, 1999-January 15, 2000, pp. 25, 63, 106, 142, fig. 36, illustrated.