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Cecilia Beaux

“The artist grips his idea and will not let it go until it has blessed him, as the angel blessed Jacob.”
- Cecilia Beaux,
- in Henry C. Metcalf and L. Urwick, eds., Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett (1940)

Cecilia Beaux, U.S. society portraitist

(1855 - 1942)