James Carroll Beckwith [SEP] cause of death
painting "The Nautilus" along with a portrait of his wife. Carroll returned to Paris in 1893 to paint a number of murals and then returned to the United States to paint murals on one of the domes in the Liberal Arts Building at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago later in 1893.
He lived in Italy from 1910 to 1914 and painted many en plein air studies of monuments, buildings, and landscapes.
James Carroll Beckwith died of a heart attack in his apartment at the Hotel Schuyler on West Forty-
fifth Street in New York City on October 24, 1917, aged 65, after having taken a taxi cab ride with his wife in Central Park.
His papers, including his sketchbooks and the diaries he kept from 1871 until his death in 1917 are held by the National Academy of Design in New York City.
External links.
- James Carroll Beckwith diary (in the New York Historical Society), 1895 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- James Carroll Beckwith papers, 1878-1924 also from