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/