Dorothea and Francesca by Cecilia Beaux
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Dorothea and Francesca

Cecilia Beaux · 1898

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Cecilia Beaux, New York, and Gloucester, MA, from 1898 to 1922; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Loan Exhibition of Portraits</em>, Dec. 14, 1898–Jan. 14, 1899, cat. 24, as <em>Dorothea and Francesca</em>.
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>Sixty–Eighth Annual Exhibition</em>, Jan. 16–Feb. 25, 1899, cat. 92, as <em>Dorothea and Francesca</em>.
  • London, The International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, <em>A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition</em>, May–July 1899, cat. 150.
  • Buffalo, <em>Pan–American Exposition, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Fine Arts</em>, May 1–Nov. 1, 1901, cat. 686.
  • Providence, Tilden–Thurber Company, “Green Gallery,” May 1902.
  • New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by Cecilia Beaux</em>, Mar. 3–14, 1903, cat. 14.
  • Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, <em>The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Third Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists</em>, Apr. 30–Aug. 30, 1908, cat. 10, as <em>Dancing Children</em>, incorrectly cited as lent by Richard Watson Gilder, Esq. New York, NY instead of Cecilia Beaux; St. Louis Museum of the Fine Arts, Sept. 15–?, 1908.
  • Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, <em>Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Miss Cecilia Beaux</em>, Feb. 24–Mar. 17, 1912, cat. 14, incorrectly cited as lent by Mrs. Gilder instead of Cecilia Beaux.
  • New York, Women’s Cosmopolitan Club, Jan. ?–Feb. 9, 1914.
  • San Francisco, <em>Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Department of Fine Arts</em>, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, cat. 3033.
  • Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, <em>The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists</em>, June 2–Sept. 6, 1921, cat. 6, as <em>The Dancing Lesson</em>.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Thirty–fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture</em>, Nov. 3–Dec. 11, 1921, cat. 15, as <em>The Dancing Lesson</em>.

Literature

Published references

  • William Walton, “Cecilia Beaux,” <em>Scribner’s</em> 22 (October, 1897), 477–85.
  • Mrs. Arthur Bell, “The Work of Cecilia Beaux,” <em>International Studio</em> 9 (October, 1899), 215–22.
  • “The International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers,” <em>Magazine of Art</em> 22 (1899), 391–92.
  • Lorinda Munson Bryant, <em>Famous Pictures of Real Boys and Girls</em> (John Lane Company, 1912), 149–51, ill. as <em>The Dancing Girls</em>.
  • Lorinda Munson Bryant, <em>American Pictures and Their Painters</em> (John Lane Company, 1917).
  • “Acquisitions,” <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Forty–Third Annual Report, 1920–1921</em> (1921), 35.
  • “Prizes and Honors in Exhibitions,” <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Forty–Third Annual Report, 1920–1921</em> (1921), 53.
  • “The Annual Exhibition,” <em>Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago</em> 15 (November/December, 1921), 174–75.
  • “Purchases and Loans,” <em>Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago</em> 16 (January/Febuary, 1922), 12.
  • Carlyle Burrows, “The Work of Cecilia Beaux,” <em>International Studio</em> 353, 85 (October, 1926), 74–80.
  • Rilla Evelyn Jackman, <em>American Arts</em> (Rand McNally and Company, 1928).
  • Cecilia Beaux, <em>Background with Figures</em> (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930).

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