Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (1887 - 1935)

Born 21 Mar 1887 in Casterton, Victoria, Australia

Died 6 Jul 1935 at age 48 in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett was born in 1887 in Casterton, Victoria, Australia, daughter of Elizabeth Kate (Brown) Beckett and Joseph Clifden Beckett.^[1]

Clarice died on 7 July 1935 at Sandringham, Victoria.^[2]

• Fact: Burial (1935) Cheltenham Memorial Cemetery, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
• Fact: Probate (02 Sep 1935) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Note that from her Biography on the Australian Dictionary of Biography we see:

Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (1887-1935), painter, was born on 21 March 1887 at Casterton, Victoria, daughter of Joseph Clifden Beckett, bank manager, and his wife Elizabeth Kate, née Brown. Her grandfather was John Brown, a Scottish master builder who had designed and built Como House and its gardens in Melbourne.

From the The Age newspaper of Tuesday 9 July 1935 we see her Obituary below:

THE LATE CLARICE BECKETT.

The unlooked-for passing of Clarice Beckett on Saturday last, after a brief illness at a private hospital at Sandring-ham, comes as a shock to the many people who knew and liked her, not only for her work as an artist, but for many other endearing qualities as a woman.

A native-born Australian, she went through a lengthy course of study under Max Meldrum, but, unlike most of the products of that school, turned her at-tention to outdoor painting, varied by occasional studies in still life. Her land-scapes were not of the generally accepted orthodox kind, and it has been suggested that the avoidance of clear definition in her pictures amounted to something of a mannerism, but the fact is that she chose for her painting time the early morning and late afternoon, periods which, particularly in the vicinity of her Beaumaris home, lent themselves to the blurred and edgeless effects which held for her a special charm. An honest and unaffected painter, she found her supreme reward in the doing, accept-ing any material advantages which came her way as a means to an end in further-ing her progress in art.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth record: 10711 / 1891. BDM Victoria. https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history.
   (Name: Hilda Ruby BECKETT); (Place: CASTERTON); (Mother: Elizth Kate BROWN); (Father: Jos Clifden)
2. ↑ Although her death notice states 6 July her grave states 7 July (Find A Grave: Memorial #135393353 ) BECKETT.—On the 6th July at private hospital Sandringham, Clarice M. Beckett of St Enochs, Dalgety road, Beaumaris. (Private interment.) Family Notices (1935, July 8). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 1. Retrieved May 1, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11745800

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 29 April 2021, 20:54), entry for Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:GZ75-2WZ ); contributed by various users.

• Rosalind Hollinrake, Beckett, Clarice Marjoribanks (1887–1935), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beckett-clarice-marjoribanks-5178/text8701, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 26 April 2021.

• https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/clarice-beckett-present-moment/

• Wikipedia contributors, "Clarice Beckett," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clarice_Beckett&oldid=1019749129 (accessed April 26, 2021). [1]

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-25/clarice-beckett-australian-art-history/100083566

• https://theconversation.com/clarice-beckett-exhibition-is-a-sensory-appreciation-of-her-magical-moments-in-time-153720

• https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/clarice-beckett-a-leading-female-artist/

• https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/this-exhibition-is-so-phenomenal-i-saw-it-three-days-in-row-20210323-p57d9q.html

• https://southaustralia.com/products/adelaide/event/clarice-beckett-the-present-moment

• https://youtu.be/cMtCu9ij-2w

• http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/reflections-on-clarice-beckett

• https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?IRN=251845

• https://nga.gov.au/exhibition/oceantooutback/detail.cfm?IRN=82524

• https://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/dr-diana-carroll/exhibition-review-clarice-beckett-the-present-moment-art-gallery-of-sa-262002

• https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/clarice-beckett-hilma-af-klint-emerge-as-modern-masters-in-new-shows-20210312-p57a5n

• THE LATE CLARICE BECKETT. from The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) of Tuesday 9 July 1935. Page 7. first accessed online on the 15th of May, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203992541?searchTerm=%22clarice%20Beckett%22

• Advertising from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Monday 22 July 1935, Page 16. first accessed online on the 15th of May, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11750282?searchTerm=%22clarice%20Beckett%22

• Advertising from The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) of Wednesday 11 September 1935, Page 21. first accessed online on the 15th of May, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11766066?searchTerm=%22clarice%20Beckett%22

• Grave record for Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (1887 - 7 Jul 1935), Billion Graves Record 37656704 Melbourne, Bayside City, Victoria, Australia. first accessed online on the 15th of May, 2021 at: https://billiongraves.com/grave/Clarice-Marjoribanks-Beckett/37656704