Alice Beckington

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 Charles Lasar at his studio.[2] Upon returning to the United States Beckington began exhibiting work in venues such as the Pan-American Exposition and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.[1] 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, who began summering at Scituate, Massachusetts around the turn of the century, founding a small artistic colony.[2]

A portrait by Beckington of her pupil Rosina Cox Boardman is currently in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[3] Three portraits, including one of her mother, are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 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. ↑ "Rosina Cox Boardman by Alice Beckington / American Art". Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Collection". Retrieved 29 January 2017.
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