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198 CECELIA BEAUX

to the French Collegiate Church whose teachings he carried into every act of his daily life.  On the American side, Cecelia inherited a New England Puritanism mellowed by years of New York and Philadelphia life into a code of conduct where moral values included, too, cultural ones.Until she was fourteen she was taught at home. It was an education as wide in its cultural range as it was sound in its ethical concepts. Always, there was music; there were books; there was an appreciation of art.  Cecelia Beaux could not remember when she had not known the pictures in the Pennsylvania Academy and in certain privately owned Philadelphia collections. Always, too, there was emphasis upon the dignity of work and the importance of developing one's skills.
     When she was sent to an exclusive girl's academy, her tastes were carefully watched and it was soon decided that she showed sufficient skill to receive special drawing lessons. For several years she studied in Philadelphia, working part of the time with William Sartain.
     Because the family resources were not unlimited and because she had been taught the dignity of work, she was eager to turn her artistic enthusiasm to some useful purpose.  She made drawings on stone of fossils, an excellent experience in draftsmanship as well as a source of some small financial return.  More successful from the monetary point of view, if much less so from the artistic, were plaques of children's heads and crayon portraits.  She worked, too, at more serious pieces and before she was in her middle twenties a painting, The Last Days of Infancy, had won a prize at the Pennsylvania Academy and, miracle to unassuming young Cecelia Beaux, had been carried by an enthusiastic friend to Paris, accepted at the Salon, and hung on a centre wall.
     It creator was soon to follow her painting. She could not bring herself to accept the limitations of Philadelphia's art training and, in 1889, with her small savings went to Europe. She remained through two memorable winters.  She visited England; she went to Italy; she summered  at Concarneau on the Breton coast; she went on a pilgrimage of love to her father's native Provence which seemed