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Tappert, Tara L. "Choices-The Life and Career of Cecilia Beaux: A Professional Biography," George Washington University, May 1990.
Her sympathetic portrayals of the American upper class and her command of current artistic styles assured Philadelphia-born portraitist Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) critical acclaim and financial success. Through her depictions of her aristocratic subjects, Beaux portrays an American Upper-class world, but Beaux’s paintings also express her self-concept as a woman and artist. In Beaux’s society, careers for women were permissible when considered vocational callings that required the sacrifice of marriage and family. As women generally were thought to lack creativity, an artistic career was a perilous choice for a woman. If successful, a woman was seen as “unique”. Such is the case with Beaux, who believed both that her artistic talents set her apart from other women and that her career was a sacred calling that required the sacrifice of marriage and family. Yet because she displayed so little sympathy for other women pursuing artistic careers, Beaux was not a wholly satisfactory role model.
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