Sailing Scene (1940)
Caroline Van Hook Bean (1879-1980)
Oil on canvas dated on the back 1940 (gift to a friend). Bean’s greatest fame came when her series, “New York in Wartime” received critical acclaim by the New York media. Trained by William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, she lived in New York early in her career. Affiliated with the Ashcan school and early impressionists. Later, active in Palm Beach, and Washington DC areas, she became a portrait painter to the wealthy, such as the Du Post family and Marjorie Merriweather Post. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. as well as the Dayton Museum.
Size: 16” X 28” Framed 19” X 31”
C. United States
Caroline Van Hook Bean (1879-1980)
Oil on canvas dated on the back 1940 (gift to a friend). Bean’s greatest fame came when her series, “New York in Wartime” received critical acclaim by the New York media. Trained by William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, she lived in New York early in her career. Affiliated with the Ashcan school and early impressionists. Later, active in Palm Beach, and Washington DC areas, she became a portrait painter to the wealthy, such as the Du Post family and Marjorie Merriweather Post. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. as well as the Dayton Museum.
Size: 16” X 28” Framed 19” X 31”
C. United States
Caroline Van Hook Bean (1879-1980)
Oil on canvas dated on the back 1940 (gift to a friend). Bean’s greatest fame came when her series, “New York in Wartime” received critical acclaim by the New York media. Trained by William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, she lived in New York early in her career. Affiliated with the Ashcan school and early impressionists. Later, active in Palm Beach, and Washington DC areas, she became a portrait painter to the wealthy, such as the Du Post family and Marjorie Merriweather Post. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. as well as the Dayton Museum.
Size: 16” X 28” Framed 19” X 31”
C. United States
