Cecilia Beaux
(1855–1942) amerikansk konstnär
Cecilia Beaux (USA, 1855–1942) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Cecilia Beaux belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia and died in Gloucester. Cecilia Beaux trained at Académie Julian and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The teachers included Tony Robert-Fleury and F.A. Van Der Wielen. Cecilia Beaux worked in Philadelphia and New York City. Wikidata associates Cecilia Beaux with American realism. Cecilia Beaux became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. Cecilia Beaux was awarded Mary Smith Prize. The students included Betsy Flagg Melcher and Lucy Taggart.
One of the best-known works is ‘Sita and Sarita’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 50 works by Cecilia Beaux with free images. The dated works span the years 1875–1925. Works by Cecilia Beaux are held by several collections, among them Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links 9 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jervand Voskan, Alexandre Séon, Gilbert Gaul, Julius LeBlanc Stewart, and Emma Lampert Cooper.