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Cecilia Beaux : a modern painter in the gilded age / Alice A. Carter.
Fine Arts Library ND237.B33 C37 2005
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks ND1329.B39 A4 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Alice A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Biography--Portraits.
- United States.
- Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942.
- Beaux, Cecilia.
- Portrait painters--United States--Biography.
- Portrait painters.
- Women painters--United States--Biography.
- Women painters.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, 2005.
- Summary:
- "Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) is widely regarded as one of the leading women artists working in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Author Alice A. Carter expertly traces Cecilia Beaux's fascinating and unconventional life, from her proscribed Philadelphia childhood through her triumphant entry into the male-dominated inner circle of the art world of Paris, Philadelphia, and New York." "Born in Philadelphia in 1855, Cecilia Beaux pursued an artistic career with the same zeal as her male peers, and by the turn of the century she had established an international reputation. She was acquainted with many of the eminent artists of her day, including Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent. Carter reveals how Beaux's passion for her work combined with her headstrong spirit enabled her to achieve professional success unrivaled by any other female artist - and the personal price she paid for it." "This is the first illustrated biography of Beaux's work to showcase more than 130 illustrations, including her best-known high-style portrait commissions as well as landscape and still-life compositions."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The Beaux sisters
- West Philadelphia
- A fashionable education
- The academy
- Studio on Chestnut Street
- Paris, 1888
- The spring salon
- The Gilder age
- Dabsville at Eastern Point
- Green Alley autumn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-220) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carter, Alice A. Cecilia Beaux.
- ISBN:
- 0847827089
- 9780847827084
- OCLC:
- 61266786
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