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CECELIA BEAUX

them reluctantly; to her amazement all six were accepted and hung a a group - a signal honor for an unknown young American woman. Three years later another great honor was hers when she became the only woman ever to have won a First Prize in a Carnegie International.

Herself a person of great simplicity and unpretentiousness, Miss Beaux did work which reflected her personality. Simplicity, directness, and its own individuality were the keynotes. It was modern in spirit, direct, natural, with no striving for pictorial effect. Her brushwork was strong and sure; her color clear and firm. One likes Miss Beaux's people immediately one glances at them; one applauds as well the great artistic talent which brings them out so easily, so naturally, so free from any hint of contrivance.

Her greatest success as a portrait painter was with the class of people she had known all her life - well bred young women, pleasant mannerly children. Her subjects were pleasing in themselves; between them and Miss Beaux there radiated a sympathetic understanding which established a friendly genial mood in the portraits. Her costuming was contemporary and natural; the elaborate and the over-orante had no more place in her concept than did stiffness or pomposity of posture. It was pleasant as it became fashionable to have one's portrait done by Miss Beaux. From France, after her entry at the Champs de Mars, came a criticism which makes clear the meaning she came to have abroad among thoughtful men as a representative of her country's artistic work. the writer was the distinguished Frenchman, Paul Bion, who wrote of Miss Beaux at some length to his friend, Saint-Gaudens:

"She is a corner of America, withdrawn, shaded, quiet. A grove let us say, and gladly we rest in its pleasant atmosphere. In the great unrolling of American painting, it is the sheerest delight to discover the work of Cecelia Beaux. She brings us news - She tells use that all young American girls are not assured to the point of boldness. She shows us girls are not assured to the point of boldness. She shows us girls who are natural and gracious, fresh and gay. She lets us know, too, that in Connecticut there are grandmothers who inspire respect and affection ... It is only a corner of