Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age

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Rizzoli, 2005 - Art - 224 pages
More than 150 full-color reproductions highlight an in-depth biography that traces the forty-year career of a great American artist, following Cecilia Beaux's colorful and unconventional life from her privileged Philadelphia youth to her successful journey to the heights of the male-dominated art world of Europe and America. 10,000 first printing.

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Contents

The Beaux Sisters
7
West Philadelphia
17
A Fashionable Education
29
Copyright

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About the author (2005)

Alice A. Carter is an artist, writer, and professor in the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University. Her recent publications include The Red Rose Girls and Thomas Eakins in the Essential Series.

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