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Portrait of Minnie Clark

J. Carroll Beckwith

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

In his tender portrait of Minnie Clark, J. Carroll Beckwith focused attention on his sitter’s graceful beauty and direct gaze by rendering her facial features in greater detail than the sketchy forms of her dress and the setting. Clark, a legendary artist’s model and close friend of Beckwith, also sat for Charles Dana Gibson (see Gibson’s drawing on display nearby).

Caption

J. Carroll Beckwith (American, 1852–1917). Portrait of Minnie Clark, ca. 1890s. Charcoal and pastel on blue-fibered, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper, sheet: 22 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (56.8 x 46.4 cm) frame: 28 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (72.4 × 82.6 × 4.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of J. Carroll Beckwith, 17.127. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Artist

J. Carroll Beckwith

Title

Portrait of Minnie Clark

Date

ca. 1890s

Medium

Charcoal and pastel on blue-fibered, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper

Classification

Dimensions

sheet: 22 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (56.8 x 46.4 cm) frame: 28 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (72.4 × 82.6 × 4.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed in charcoal, upper left: "CARROLL BECKWITH"

Credit Line

Gift of J. Carroll Beckwith

Accession Number

17.127

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Artists and makers

J. Carroll Beckwith

1 work in the collection