Monica Marcotte
describes an interesting experience during the writing of her paper for the
provisional docent program on James Beard's The Night Before the
Battle (78.15). While in the Gallery studying the painting, she
met a woman who said she was the great-great granddaughter of the
painter. Her name was Joan Wing, and she confirmed that a brother and
four sons of Beard also were artists and that one of the sons (Daniel) was the
father of the Boy Scout movement in America. She said that Beard did a
great many animal pictures, particularly of family dogs. Wing related
that her mother knows all the family history and still owns several of Beard's
paintings. Most of the information about the Beard artists is in the art
gallery in Painesville, Ohio, where the artist lived for a time beginning in
1923.
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