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| Cecilia Beaux
American 1855 -1942
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| Born: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Died: |
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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| Active: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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| Studied: |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1877 - 1878
National Art Training School
Academie Julien, Paris
Academie Colarossi, Paris
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| Instructors: |
Adolf Van der Wielen
Camille Piton
William Sartain 1881 - 1883
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| Examples of Work: |
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Toledo Museum of Art
Luxembourg Gallery, Paris
Ufizzi Gallery, Florence
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Instructor
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| Subjects Known For: |
Portraits
Women
Children
Political Figures
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1894; NA 1902
American Federation of Artists
National Arts Club
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors
Society of American Artists
Societaire des Beaux-Arts
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| Teaching Positions: |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1895 - 1915
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, where she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1877 to 1879 and with William Sartain (1843-1924) from 1881 to 1883. She also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1888. Beaux first exhibited at the Pennsylvania ...
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Cecilia Beaux, born in 1855, was one of the most prominent female portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20th century and is often ranked with Mary Cassatt. She began her artistic training under two Philadelphia based ar...
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