Art History

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Sample Art History Museum Paper
Student Name: air Number and Section:
Girl in a Japanese Costume
Betsey Beckwith
Artist: Ammi Phillips, American, 1788-1865
mass medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: ca. 1817
Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 24 9/16 in.
com enjoiner address Line: donation of Mrs. Harold J. Roig
Accession Number: 79.133.1
Artist: William Merritt Chase, American,
1849-1916
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: ca. 1890
Dimensions: 24 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.
Credit Line: Gift of Isabella S. Kurtz in memory of Charles M. Kurtz
Accession Number: 86.197.2
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Two Women of the nineteenth Century
This formal comparison of two American paintings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Betsey Beckwith (ca. 1817) by Ami Phillips and A Girl in Japanese Costume (ca. 1890) by William Merritt Chase, brings attention to two opposite approaches of revealing two different personalities of the women who lived in the same century. Both paintings are half-length portraits of women who are both seated in a three-quarter expectal ready looking straight at the viewer. The scale of both figures is sozzled to a human size and their position close to the front of the picture plane creates a strong personal association between the sitters and the viewer.




The portrait of Betsey Beckwith depicts a woman of about cardinal years old seated on a go in front of an empty gray wall. Her posture is relaxed only respectful; she leans against the back of the chair with her arms folded slightly crossways her bosom. Mrs. Beckwith holds a book in her left hand; she has put the book aside for a moment but let off keeps her thumb on a page she stopped to read. Her pass are placed so that the long, thin fingers are pointing in the exact opposite direction. Mrs. Beckwith was painted wearing a knit stitch and inexpensive-looking black dress with a high collar of a stiff white material with large pleats. Her head is cover with a white bonnet which is decorated with rows of smaller, but prettier pleats. The appearance on Mrs. Beckwiths face is calm...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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