Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

Cecilia " Leilie " Beaux and her sister Etta were subsequently raised by their maternal grandmother and aunts, primarily in Philadelphia.

Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux ( 1920 )

Cecilia Beaux painting Cardinal Mercier ( ca.

" He advised his students, among them Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent, to live with the common man and paint the common man, in total opposition to Cecilia Beaux ’ s artistic methods and subjects.

Cecilia Beaux died at Green Alley at the age of eighty-seven, and was buried in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

The ordinary ones are signed John Sargent, the best are signed Cecilia Beaux, which is, of course, nonsense in more ways than one, but it is part of the generous chorus of praise.

* Beaux, Cecilia.

Background with Figures: Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux.

* Goodyear, Jr., Frank H., and others., Cecilia Beaux: Portrait of an Artist.

* Tappert, Tara Leigh, Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture.

* Cecilia Beaux from Online Encyclopedia

* Cecilia Beaux from Smithsonian American Art Museum

* Cecilia Beaux Papers from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

* Portrait of Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt, 1885, grandmother of Cecilia Beaux, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pa., ExplorePAHistory. com

* Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 2-April 13, 2008

* Cecilia Beaux, Americans in Paris: 1860 – 1900, Americans in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum

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His other interests included singing in the Boston Cecilia, and he was a great aficionado of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

1989: Horizonte-Berliner Festspiele / 1991: Istanbul Festival / 1992: Romanischer Sommer, Köln / 1993: Internationale Funkausstellung, Berlin / 1994: Abbaye de Sylvanès / 1995: Stimmen Lörrach / 1996: Copenhagen, Cultural Capital of Europe / 1997: Thessaloniki, Cultural Capital of Europe / Jerusalem 2000 / Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / 1998: 900 Jahre Hildegard von Bingen / Baalbek-Festival, Lebanon / Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht / 1999: Boston Early Music Festival / Festival van Vlaanderen, Bruges / 2000: Library of Congress, Washington / Spitalfields Festival, London / Styriarte, Graz / 2001: Lufthansa Baroque Festival, London / 2002: Dresdner Festspiele / Bruges, Cultural Capital of Europe / 2003: Madrid / Sevilla / Festival de Menton / 2004: Ludwigsburger Festspiele / Vezelay Cathedral / 2005: Komische Oper, Berlin / Rheingau Musik Festival / 2006: Frauenkirche Dresden / Lincoln Center, New York / 2007: Konzerthaus, Vienna / Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Singapore Arts Festival / 2008: Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre de la Ville Paris / 2009: Sheik Zayed Book Award, Abu Dhabi / Beethovenfest Bonn / Musikvereinssaal Wien / 2010: Schwetzinger Festspiele / Flanders Festival, Brügge / Ruhrtriennale Bochum.

The American premiere of the piece was given soon afterwards by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with the chorus of the Cecilia Society ( trained by Arthur Fiedler ) on December 19, 1930.

He was also a major benefactor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Numismatic Society which he convinced to relocate next to the Hispanic Society at the Beaux Arts Audubon Terrace complex in New York's Washington Heights.

The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a 1903 " Beaux Arts " style theater, designed by the architect John Galen Howard.

) ( 1960 ): " Letters of Thomas Wood, Puritan, 1566 – 1577 " Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research Special Supplement No. 5 November 1960

The Pulitzer committee sidestepped the issue by giving the completed Maus a Special Award in Letters in 1992.

* NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections Guide to the David Wojnarowicz -- Janine Pommy-Vega Letters

Other prizes include: The Golden Medal of The Superior Council of Arquitecture of the College of Architects of Madrid in 1988 ; Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, the Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design from Harvard University, and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988 ; Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993 ; the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Praemium Imperiale in 1998, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001, the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France 2005.

Also, on the rare occasion that a female exhibits interest in one of the duo, it is usually Beavis ( as exemplified in the episodes: Vidiots, Another Friday Night, Teen Talk, Letters to Santa Butt-head in Christmas Special ) who gets the attention ; this could be because of Beavis ’ somewhat childlike temperament, which is less off-putting than Butt-head ’ s crasser, more blatantly sexual approaches.

* Special issue on Connell: Three articles about him, Open Letters Monthly: an Arts and Literature Review, August 2008: Sam Sacks, " Familiar Wishes "; Steve Donoghue, " Gathering Driftwood "; and John Cotter, " Backyard Arcana "

* Guide to the John E. Hart Letters, 1861-1863 MS 392 held by Special Collection & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy

* Doctor Bird DB-1194B " Special Beat " ( as Seven Letters ) 1969

* A Muppet representation of Detective Munch appeared in the Sesame Street sketch " Law & Order: Special Letters Unit " where he was portrayed by David Rudman.

* Love Letters From Elvis 2 CD FTD Special Edition ( Release Date-July 2008 )

The success of the first series of Ladies of Letters ( broadcast in 1997 ) spawned adaptations of several sequels: Ladies of More Letters ( 1999 ); Ladies of Letters. Com ( 2000 ); Ladies of Letters Log On ( 2001 ); Ladies of Letters Make Mincemeat ( 2001 Christmas Special ); Ladies of Letters Spring Clean ( 2004 ); Ladies of Letters Go Global ( 2006 ); Ladies of Letters Say No ( 2007 ); Ladies of Letters Go Green ( 2008 ); Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit ( 2009 ) and Ladies of Letters Go Crackers ( 2010-this series features Anne Reid instead of Patricia Routledge as Vera Small, see below ).

Collections of Wieland's letters were edited by his son Ludwig ( 1815 ) and by H. Gessner ( 1815 – 1816 ); his Letters to Sophie Laroche by F. Horn ( 1820 ).

In 1705 and 1710 were published Collections of Controversial Letters, in 1711 a collection of Sermons, and in 1726 a volume of Posthumous Discourses.

His ‘ Original Letters ,’ 1729 – 33 are the University Library, Edinburgh (‘ Laing Collections ,’ No. 346 ).

Its first published book was Robert F. Harper's Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum.

* Letters and sonnets ( some French, some English ) in Collections Relating to the History Of Mary Queen of Scotland, Volume 2.

* William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ( Boston: 1915 )

; being 150 Miles the Post setts out from Boston at the same time ; the New York Post returns with the Eastern Letters, and the Boston Post with the Western.

The Post from Boston to Pisacataway being 70 Miles leaves Letters at Ipswich, Salem, Marblehead, Newberry.

Carter has won numerous awards for his significant contributions to typography and design, including an honoris causa Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Art Institute of Boston, an medal in 1995, the TDC Medal from the Type Directors Club in 1997, and the 2005 Typography Award.

See the Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by George William Curtis ( New York, 1889 ); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir ( Boston, 1878 ); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records ( 1910 ), edited by his daughter, Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.

* George William Curtis, by Edward Cary, in the American Men of Letters series ( Boston, 1894 ), an excellent biography

Washington assigned Greene the command of the city of Boston after it was evacuated by the British in March 1776. Letters of October 1775 and January 1776 to Samuel Ward, then a delegate from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress, favored a declaration of independence.

Their son became a noted poet and sculptor ( his bust of his father is in the entrance to the Harvard Law School Library ) who would publish The Life and Letters of Joseph Story ( 2 vols., Boston and London, 1851 ).

* Emma Barton ( with William T. Sidgwick ), ed., Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers ( Boston, 1897 )

* Letters from New York, written to the Boston Courier ( 2 vols., 1843 – 1845 )

In 1774, when the North government was considering how to respond to the Boston Tea Party, Bernard published Select Letters on Trade and Government, containing proposals on how deal with the ongoing difficulties in the colonies.

Letters to Cleo was an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for the 1993 single " Here & Now ", from their full-length debut album Aurora Gory Alice ( the band attained exposure outside of Boston due to the album's popularity ).

Sources are his own Letters and Sketches of Sermons, 3 volumes, Boston, 1812 ; Autobiography, continued by his wife, ( also known as Life of Murray ), Boston, 1816, centenary ed., 1870.

* Excursions in Art and Letters, Boston, 1891

Collected editions of his Poetical Works and his Dramatic Works were published at Boston in 1888 ; his Life and Letters ( Boston, 2 vols, 1884 ) were edited by his wife and Horace Scudder.

Soon after leaving the band, Gordon demoed solo material in Boston with friends Kay Hanley and Michael Eisenstein from the band Letters to Cleo.

* The Life and Letters of John Burroughs by Clara Barrus ( Volume 1, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1925 )

O ' Brien has given several keynote speeches over the years, including the undergraduate commencement at Bryant University in May 2007, where she was presented with a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, the convocation speech at Cornell University's Commencement in May 2007, a speech at Binghamton University commencement in December 2007, and the keynote speech at the 2008 annual National Association of Student Personnel Administrators ( NASPA ) Conference in Boston, MA in March 2008.

* Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

* The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution: Reminiscences and Letters, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1918. from Archive. org