at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1899 for what is probably his most celebrated work, his 1886 portrait of William M. Walton. He won a gold medal at the Charleston Exposition in 1902 and exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 showing his painting "The Nautilus" along with a portrait of his wife. Carroll returned to Paris in 1893 to paint a number of murals and then returned to the United States to paint murals on one of the domes in the Liberal Arts Building at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago later in 1893. He lived in Italy from 1910 to 1914 and painted many en plein air studies of monuments, buildings, and landscapes. James Carroll Beckwith died of a heart attack in his apartment at the Hotel Schuyler on West Forty-fifth Street in New York City on October 24, 1917, aged 65, after having taken a taxi cab ride with his wife in Central Park. His papers, including his sketchbooks and the diaries he kept from 1871 until his death in 1917 are held by the National Academy of Design in New York City. Selection of paintings References External links James Carroll Beckwith diary (in the New York Historical Society), 1895 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art James Carroll Beckwith papers, 1878-1924 also from the Archives of American art Two Beckwith auction catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF) http://snapjudgment.org/past-life-detective From National Public Radio’s Snap Judgement, a radio program about a police detective who believes he is the reincarnation of James Carroll Beckwith 1852 births 1917 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters American genre painters American Impressionist painters American landscape painters Art Students League of New York faculty People from Hannibal, Missouri 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists