WHEN MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE THEY UNDERSTOOD ARTIST’S LIFE – Cecilia Beaux: the painter’s pilgrimage of a woman

CECILIA BEAUX 1/3 – She – an American society portraitist – have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle, and really become one of the most famous portrait painters of her era. At age 16, she began art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits (also gave private art lessons). In 1876, Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she attended costume and portrait painting classes.

CECILIA BEAUX 2/3 – At 32, Cecilia left for Paris, where the Impressionists were beginning to lose their solidarity, but the Beaux’s artistic temperament would not align with Impressionism. During her pilgrimage and training in France, Cecilia Beaux would discover that her French heritage would serve. So, she remained a realist painter (but her European training did influence her palette), and she back in America (where she became the first woman to have a regular teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), she proceeded to paint portraits.

CECILIA BEAUX 3/3 – By 1906, she began to live time at Green Alley, belonging to her friends and neighbors. As Cecilia says “musical atmosphere they understood the spirit and necessities of an artist’s life”. She was buried in Pennsylvania.

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