Caroline van Hook Bean, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCaroline van Hook Bean
American painter
Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1879
Date of Death: 24-Dec-1980
Profession: visual artist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Caroline van Hook Bean
- Caroline van Hook Bean (November 16, 1879 – December 24, 1980) was an American painter. Born in Washington, D.C., Bean was the daughter of Tarleton Hoffman Bean, an ichthyologist at the Smithsonian Institution.
- In the 1890s she moved to New York City, where her father had become director of the New York Aquarium.
- From around 1893 to 1894 she studied in Paris, and she graduated from Smith College in 1903.
- She went on to study painting with Bernard Blommers and John Singer Sargent, and had lessons with Harry Thompson while in Paris.
- Bean lived in New York City from 1905 to 1921, during which time she studied under William Merritt Chase at the National Academy of Design.
- She then returned to Washington, where she kept a studio in Georgetown, in which neighborhood she also remodeled and built houses.
- During her career she was a member of the Society of Washington Artists, the Society of Washington Etchers, and the Washington Art Club.
- Bean was married to the engineer Algernon H.
- Binyon until his death; from 1913 to 1918 she had been married to Bart, the son of her teacher Bernard Blommers.
- She died at Georgetown University Hospital of a stroke, leaving no survivors.
- Known for her flower paintings and street scenes, especially of Washington, Bean was extensively active as a portraitist as well.Bean was profiled in The New Yorker in 1970 on the occasion of an exhibit of some of her World War I-related work.
- She is the subject of a biography, Caroline van Hook Bean – The Last of the Impressionists.
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