Artistic Ambitions: Cecilia Beaux in Philadelphia
Posted by Tara Tappert on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Artistic Ambitions: Cecilia Beaux in Philadelphia In 1885, when young Philadelphia artist Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) sent Les derniers jours d’enfance (1883) to the fifty-sixth annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her goal to become one of the finest and most successful portrait painters in America was only a glimmering ambition. Painted under the tutelage of artist William Sartain, Les derniers jours...read more