Jerome Russell MacBeth

Jerome Russell MacBeth, 72, an art museum director-turned real estate agent, died of cancer July 112005, at the Washington Home.
Mr. MacBeth was born near Hyattsville and raised in the Woodridge section of Washington. He graduated from old McKinley High School
and served in the Army in Germany from 1953 to 1955.
He graduated with a degree in art history from Catholic University in 1957 and for the next three years worked as a program analyst in the
comptroller's office at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Seeking to further his academic studies, Mr. MacBeth did graduate work in art history at the University of Florence in Italy in the early 1960s.
He traveled extensively throughout Italy and Europe, studying Renaissance art and broadening his command of European languages,
which in addition to Italian and Latin included French, German, Spanish and Greek.
In 1965, he became assistant director of the Cummer Gallery of Art in Jacksonville, Fla. He went on to work as director of the Cheekwood
Fine Arts Center in Cheekwood, Tenn., and director of the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, S.C.
He returned to Washington in 1974 to work as a real estate agent and pursue an interest in urban revitalization. He was employed by a
string of real estate firms, including Dale Denton Real Estate, Beau Bogan Real Estate, Prudential Carruthers and Long and Foster, for
whom he worked until his retirement last year.
He also helped restore older houses, including his own 1880s-era Logan Circle home, in which he lived with his five cats. He maintained a
connection to Italian culture as a regular parishioner at the historically Italian American Holy Rosary Church in Washington, where he
ministered as an Italian language lector.
He leaves no immediate survivors.