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La Tour de Solidor at St. Severin, Normandy
Carroll Beckwith (born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917)
ca. 1877
- Medium
- oil on fabric: canvas mounted on paperboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (30.8 x 25.1 cm.)
- Culture
- Normandy (France)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
James Carroll Beckwith made many trips to Europe throughout his life and spent at least one summer in Normandy. The coastal light inspired a series of moody paintings of dramatic ruins set against restless skies. This piece shows a fourteenth-century fortress in the city of Saint-Malo. Beckwith placed the massive structure at the top of the canvas against a dark, stormy sky to emphasize its height and grandeur.
