• Man With the Cat by Cecilia Beaux

  • Mar 16 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
  • Podcast

Man With the Cat by Cecilia Beaux

  • Summary

  • Henry Sturgis Drinker and Cecilia Beaux had a complicated history but that didn’t get in the way of Cecilia making him the subject of one of her best portraits.


    In today’s episode, we’ll find out how Henry was just one example of the lengths this renowned Gilded Age artist went to pursue her dream of an art career. And how her talent, hard work--and the help of a good friend--got her started.

    SHOW NOTES

    “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/

    Episode music

    “Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 21 'Sunday'” by Frédéric Chopin

    Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org

    https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/

    “Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 17 'Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame'” by Frédéric Chopin

    Performed by Ivan Ilic. Courtesy of musopen.org

    https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/

    “String Quartet no. 12 in F major 'American', Op. 96” by Antonín Dvořák.

    Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org

    https://musopen.org/music/4887-string-quartet-no-12-in-f-major-american-op-96/

    Artwork information

    https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/man-cat-henry-sturgis-drinker-1635

    Les Dernier Jours d’Enfance

    https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/les-derniers-jours-d-enfance

    Cecilia bio

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Beaux#cite_ref-16

    “Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age” by Alice A. Carter.

    https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxmode0000cart

    “Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter” by Sylvia Yount.

    https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxamer00beau

    Henry Sturgis Drinker

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sturgis_Drinker

    Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/cecilia-beaux/

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