Cecilia Beaux. Part 5 – Concarneau, the summer of 1888.
The Lady Artist by Charles “Shorty” Lasar ……………………..Cecilia Beaux and her cousin May Whitlock had arrived in Paris in the last week of January 1888. The weather had been typical January weather – wet,...
View ArticleCecilia Beaux. Part 6 – Visits to England, the Return Home and Family Portraits.
Cecilia Beaux (c.1888) ……………….Cecilia Beaux finally returned to Paris in December 1888 after her summer in Concarneau and her six week European journey and the first thing she had to contend with was...
View ArticleCecilia Beaux. Part 7 – The final years
Cynthia Sherwood by Cecilia Beaux (1892) Upon returning to the United States, Beaux became one of the most sought-after portraitists in Philadelphia and New York. One of the first paintings by Cecilia...
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For many of you, the sight of snow is a curse, for others it is a sight of wonderment. Maybe the falling of snow, like Christmas presents, is just a meaningful event for children. Many believe snow...
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I will start my first blog of 2018 with a question, a puzzle for you to solve. What is the connection between an anonymous group of feminist, female artists dressed up as gorillas, the twentieth...
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