Carroll Beckwith, Untitled
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Carroll Beckwith

Untitled

1910

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
22.3 × 12.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-138071

Inscribed on the back of this painting are the words “From Bertha’s Window.” Bertha Hill was Carroll Beckwith’s wife, whom he married in 1887. (Franchi and Weber, Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), 1999) The couple moved to Rome in 1910 and also made a trip to Florence, where Beckwith painted this scene on the eleventh of October. Beckwith’s passion for color is eviden…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution

Registry history

  • 1910 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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