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Cecilia Beaux

American Impressionism Painter · Active 1898 – 1898
Cecilia Beaux is among the painters whose work defines the American Impressionism era. Paintale holds 1 of Beaux's works in its collection, spanning themes of portrait.
Where to see the work: Art Institute of Chicago.
Cecilia Beaux's surviving output sits squarely within the American Impressionism period, and the paintings collected here return repeatedly to portrait. Read together, they trace how one artist worked through the same problems of figure, light, and narrative weight that defined the period.
Cecilia Beaux's paintings have found permanent homes at institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago. Every entry on Paintale digs into how each piece was made, what it depicts, and how it has been read and re-read since it left the studio.
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