Artist

Chester Beach

born San Francisco, CA 1881-died Brewster, NY 1956
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Chester Beach, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001249
Born
San Francisco, California, United States
Died
Brewster, New York, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Chester Beach worked in New York, Paris, and San Francisco, and his marble sculpture The Unveiling of the Dawn appeared in New York’s groundbreaking Armory Show in 1913. Beach designed coins and created sculptures in bronze and marble. He also taught sculpture at the Richmond Hill Settlement House in Queens, New York, from 1910 to 1922.

Works by this artist (11 items)

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George Catlin, John Sartain, Osceola, engraving and mezzotint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William Page Howell, 1979.135.2
Osceola
Artist
engraving and mezzotint
Not on view
Christian Schussele, John Sartain, Home on a Furlough, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John C. Lord, 1976.16
Home on a Furlough
Artist
Not on view
George Caleb Bingham, John Sartain, Martial Law, 1872, engraving, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frances M. Mays, 1969.36
Martial Law
Artist
Date1872
engraving
Not on view
Christian Schussele, John Sartain, Men of Progress and Invention (At Cooper Union, 1857), 1863, engraving, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1966.48.29
Men of Progress and Invention (At Cooper Union, 1857)
Artist
Date1863
engraving
Not on view