TitleBeata
Artist
Chester Beach
(American, 1881 - 1956)
Date1919
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/4 × 13 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.
Other (Sculpture): 12 × 12 × 8 in.
Other (Base): 1 1/4 × 13 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.
SignedInscribed under left shoulder: "C. Beach 1919"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, December 1, 1924
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number10-S
Label TextThis terra-cotta is a portrait of the artist's eldest daughter Beata (later Mrs. Vernon C. Porter) who was born in Italy in 1911 and who is shown here at the age of eight. Beach had evidently executed an earlier portrait of his daughter as a very young baby, Roma Beata and which he exhibited at the 1912 Macbeth Gallery show. The later Beata is typical of Beach's realistic work of the 1910's and reflects his interest in trying his hand at a variety of sculptural material. A bust which was probably the initial version of the work remained in Beach's studio at his death.
