Huntington and seventy-eight year old Cecilia Beaux
were appointed to an exclusive American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1932 and 1933 respectively and New York newspapers hailed Cecilia Beaux as the greatest woman painter in America.
Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe by Laurie Lisle p. 253
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent. She was a near-contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
Cecilia Beaux died at the age of 87 on September 17, 1942, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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