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Portrait of the Beinecke brothers
Title
[Portrait of the Beinecke brothers].
Production
[United States], 1965.
Physical Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 152 x 244 cm in frame 162 x 254 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Provenance
Gift of the Beinecke Family, 1965.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Franklin Chenault Watkins (1894-1972), American portrait and mural painter who studied with Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Edwin J. Beinecke (1886-1970, Yale 1907), Frederick W. “Fritz” Beinecke (1887-1971, Yale 1909S), and Walter Beinecke (1888-1958, Yale 1910), sons of Bernhard and Johanna Beinecke of New York; all three were officers in the Sperry & Hutchinson company and benefactors of Yale University. The brothers provided funds for the construction of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, to which they made gifts of their own literary and historical collections, as well as providing endowment funds for further collection development.
Summary
A group portrait of Edwin J. Beinecke, Frederick W. Beinecke, and Walter Beinecke, by Franklin Chenault Watkins. The painting is oil on canvas, and is signed at the upper left corner: "F Watkins / 1965." Edwin and Frederick Beinecke are shown seated at a table inside the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, with Walter Beinecke standing at their proper left; one of the library's distinctive marble and granite walls is behind them. Representations of the brothers' and the library's holdings also appear in the portrait, such as, on the table, books and a crystal vase bearing a likeness of Robert Louis Stevenson to reflect the collecting interests of Edwin J. Beinecke, and a map, papers, and the words "Lewis & Clark" to suggest William Clark's field notes from the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) and Frederick Beinecke's collecting interest in Western Americana.
Publications
The New Beinecke Portrait, in Yale University Library Gazette 40, no. 1 (July 1965): 1-4.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
October 13, 2015
References
Franklin Chenault Watkins, Portrait of the Beinecke Brothers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Franklin Chenault Watkins, Portrait of the Beinecke Brothers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Group portraits - United States - 20th century.
Oil paintings (visual works) - United States - 20th century.
Portraits - United States - 20th century.
Occupation
Artists United States 20th century.
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