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CECILIA BEAUX
(American, 1855-1942)
VICTORY BEARING AWAY THE INFANT FUTURE
oil on canvas;
signed Cecilia Beaux, l.r.; circa 1921;
88 x 60 inches

Literature: Tappert, Tara. Out of the Background: Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, c. 1994; Chapter 12

Other Notes: Considered one of the finest female portrait painters of the turn of the century, Cecilia Beaux was the first women to receive a full time appointment at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was a contemporary of William Merritt Chase, Abbot Thayer and Childe Hassam, with her talent as a portrait artist often compared to John Singer Sargeant and Mary Cassatt.
Beaux spent summers on Eastern Point in Gloucester, where she had a community of friends, including the politically active A. Piatt Andrew. It was Andrew that commissioned Beaux to create Victory Bearing Away the Infant Future, for an American Legion Fourth of July celebration in 1921.