Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition



Catalogue Cover Title page Copyright/Colophon Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction (1 2 3 4 ) Thumbnail Images Plates [ sort by Artist ] Birch, Thomas Constable, William Gullager, Christian Lawrence, Unknown after Charles Bird Lawrence, Attributed to Charles Bird Eddy, Oliver Tarbell Winner, William E. Bonnell, William C. Bonfield, George Robert Carmiencke Johann Hermann Humphreys, Charles Spencer Toronto Jersey Blue Trotter, Newbold Hough Hamilton, James Beach at Atlantic City In the Inlet, Atlantic City Richards, Frederick de Bourg Beach Scene Atlantic City Beach Scene with Sailboats Herzog, Hermann Richards, William Trost New Jersey Shore Waves Crashing Against the Shore Bonfield, William van de Velde Lewis, Edmund Darch Cape May, New Jersey Looking up the Beach, Cape May Jersey Coast Beach Scene Essig, George Emerick Harbor View w/Sailboats & Steamers Jersey Shore Dunes Barnegat Lighthouse Atlantic City Windmill and Sailboat Willcox, William H. Smith, Xanthus Cape May Beach Atlantic City, New Jersey Three Figures w/Rowboat, A.C., N.J. Waller, Frank Church, Morristown Red Foliage with Cows Grazing The Beach Afternoon, Morristown House and Garden, Morristown Beale, Joseph Boggs Judson, William Lees Weber, Carl Clark, Frederick H. Holloway, Edward Stratton Freedley, George Harrison Atlantic City from the Bay Beach Scene, Atlantic City Morris, George Spencer King, Paul Bernard Patterson, Amelia Rumsey D’Ascenzo, Nicola Koehler, Paul R. Cameron, Peter Caledon Absecon Island, New Jersey Sandhills @ Ventnor: Atlantic City Island Sunset over the Salt Meadows Gloaming on Tuckerton Salt Marshes Creek and Marsh, Absecon Island Farley, Richard Blossom At the Seashore Ocean City, New Jersey People on the Beach Cain, Cecilia A. Sorver, J. D. Griffith, Ella N. Krick, David M. Schoonover, Frank E. Howard, Edith Lucile Sunset on the Jersey Marshes Beach Scene Gechtoff, Leonid Licini, Frank Lie, Jonas Kelly, Leon Sailboat Race, Harvey Cedars, NJ Barnegat Bay, Fishery Blackburn, Morris Atkinson Campbell, Hugh H. Chard, Daniel	Joseph Boggs Beale (American, 1841–1926) Wreck near Cooper’s Point, New Jersey Watercolor on paper, 6 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches Signed, dated, and inscribed at lower left: “J.B.Beale/June 19,/1886 Wreck near Coopers Point N.J.” Known as “The Professor,” Joseph Boggs Beale was born in Philadelphia, the oldest child of Dr. Stephen Thomas Beale, a founder of the Pennsylvania Society of Dental Surgeons. His great-grandaunt Betsy Ross was credited as having made the first American flag. Beale’s early life is documented in a diary he kept between January 1, 1856, and July 26, 1865.¹ He attended the Locust Street Grammar School and in 1858 entered Central High School, where he studied writing and drawing with Alexander J. MacNeill. Beale enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1860 and later took lessons in oil painting from the landscape artist Isaac L. Williams (1817–1895). Beale successfully competed against Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) for the position of Professor of Drawing and Writing at Central High School in 1862. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Thirty-Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves and sent sketches of the battle of Gettysburg for illustrated news magazines. Beale resigned from Central High School in 1866 and worked as an illustrator for various periodicals, including Frank Leslie’s Weekly, Harper’s, and the Daily Graphic. He married in 1868 and moved to Chicago to work as a book illustrator but lost all of his drawings in the great fire of October 1871. Beale returned to Philadelphia and worked as a commercial artist for the Frank Harris Lithography Company. Beale soon started working for the firm of Caspar Briggs & Sons to create original designs for the magic lantern, a popular form of entertainment during the Victorian era that was the forerunner of the slide projector. Over the remainder of his career Beale made 1,804 black-and-white drawings that served as the basis for magic lantern slides. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Beale died in Germantown.² The site of this shipwreck was Cooper’s Point on the east side of the Delaware River in Camden, directly across from Philadelphia. Camden, which was originally called Pyne Poynte, was latter renamed Cooper’s Ferry after the early settler and ferry operator William Cooper. The area had other significant historical associations. During the Revolutionary War General “Mad Anthony” Wayne forced the British forces to take refuge at Cooper’s Point. A skirmish ensued on March 1, 1778, between Sixth and Market streets and Cooper’s Creek Bridge, during which the American ally Polish Count Casimir Pulaski distinguished himself in combat.³ Notes 1. Extracts from Beale’s diary were published by Nicholas Biddle Wainwright, “Education of an Artist: The Diary of Joseph Boggs Beale, 1856–1862,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 97 (1973), pp. 485–510. 2. See Drawings of Joseph Boggs Beale [exh. cat.] (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1936); The Wicked City of the ’90s Shown in Beale Drawings [exh. cat.] (Philadelphia: Atwater Kent Museum, 1940); and Frances Osborn Robb, David M. Robb, Jr., and Dale Roy Lance, Star-Spangled History; Drawings by Joseph Boggs Beale, Magic Lantern Artist, 1841–1926 [exh. cat.] (Galveston, Tex.: American National Insurance Co., 1975). 3. Historic Roadsides in New Jersey (Plainfield, N.J.: W. L. Glenney, 1928), p. 24. Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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