Philip Conway Beam
- BORN
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October 7, 1910
Dallas, Texas
- DIED
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2005
Lewiston, Maine
- EDUCATION
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Courtauld Institute of Art
London, EnglandHarvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Philip Conway Beam was born on October 7, 1910, in Dallas, Texas. Beam earned his doctor of philosophy degree (as well as his bachelor’s and master’s degrees) from Harvard University. He then attended the Courtauld Institute at the University of London.
Philip Beam taught interior design at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1933-1935 while working as the assistant to the director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery. He left Kansas City in 1936 to join the faculty at Bowdoin College in Maine, becoming the youngest director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 1939. He was also a professor of art at Bowdoin and was appointed the Henry Johnson Chair of Art and Archaeology in 1958.
Philip Beam is the author of several books, including on the art of John Sloan, and contributed to other books, as well as catalogs on Winslow Homer.
Note
He was the author of Winslow Homer at Prout’s Neck, published in 1966, upon which a television documentary, Winslow Homer of Maine, was based. He was also the author of The Language of Art (1958), The Art of John Sloan (1962), Winslow Homer in Maine (1968), Winslow Homer’s Magazine Engravings (1979), Winslow Homer’s Watercolors (1983), and the section on American art in the Visual Dictionary of Art." -- Bowdoin Magazine obituary
Awards & Exhibitions 0
References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Jannes Library, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Bibliography
Select Sources
"Philip Conway Beam," Bowdoin Magazine, accessed December 16, 2020, https://obituaries.bowdoin.edu/philip-conway-beam/.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
Mazee Bush Owens and Frances S. Bush, A History of Community Achievement: 1885-1964 (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design, 1965),
https://archive.org/details/OwensMazeeBushCommunityAchievement/mode/2up
Image Credits
Portrait of Artist
Unknown, Philip Conway Beam, n.d.
Photograph.
Contributed by Lesley Beam Smith on Find A Grave.
Contributors
Lencia Beltran, Kansas City Art Institute
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Jannes Library, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Bibliography
Select Sources
"Philip Conway Beam," Bowdoin Magazine, accessed December 16, 2020, https://obituaries.bowdoin.edu/philip-conway-beam/.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
Mazee Bush Owens and Frances S. Bush, A History of Community Achievement: 1885-1964 (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design, 1965),
https://archive.org/details/OwensMazeeBushCommunityAchievement/mode/2up
Contributors
Lencia Beltran, Kansas City Art Institute
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
Updated on None
