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CECELIA BEAUX

became an artist as respected as she was fasionable. Honors came to her from everywhere in a steady stream which did not diminish until her recent death, only one year short of her eightieth birthday. She was elected to the National Academy in 1902. Yale and Pennsylvania conferred honorary degrees upon her. Her work hangs in nearly every important American museum. Abroad, she is represented in the Luxembourg and the Uffizi at Florence. Gold medals came from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, from the Paris Exposition of 1900, from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1934, she received the gold medal of the National Achievement Award. As the honors of the world flowed in upon her, one wonders if any among them was ever treasured closer to the heart than the quiet words of Cardinal Mercier as he said goodby to her in the Archevêché at Malines:

Mademoiselled, il y a beaucoup de portraits, de belle peinture, de beaux tableaux, mais vous êtes la seule qui a fait l'âme.