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Cecilia Beaux:American Figure Painter
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The Philadelphia native was born to a family educators, industrialists, lawyers, scientists, and writers. Her connections led to sitters for her portraits, for example, Edith Roosevelt, the wife of Thomas Roosevelt, and her daughter, Ethel were subjects for Cecilia Beaux. |
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The American was trained at the Académie Julian in Paris. She studied with William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony-Robert Fleury. She was honored to be included in the 1890 Parisian Salon. |
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Cecilia Beaux was one of the first successful American female artists. She disliked being labeled as a "woman painter." In 1915 she made her feelings clear when she said, “an hour when the term ‘Women in Art’ will be as strange sounding a topic as ‘Men in Art’ would be now.” |
Title: Twilight Confidences, 1888
Artist: Cecilia Beaux (American 1855-1942)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 23-1/2 x 28 inches.
Permanent Collection: Private Collection. Photograph by Rick Echelmeyer.
Image Courtesy: Tacoma Art Museum
Currently their is an exhibition on tour in the USA celebrating the life and work of Cecilia Beaux. It opens at the Tacoma Art Museum early in December.
“This exhibition gives visitors an opportunity to experience a fuller picture of American art history with a much-overdue survey of this critically important artist,” said Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art. “Beaux’s career helps us understand the movement from academic style to modernism. Her work also represents the rapid changes in American culture at the turn of the twentieth century.”
Cecilia Beaux
Tacoma Art Museum:
December 6, 2007– March 10, 2008
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia:
February 2–April 13, 2008