Henry Drinker research material on Cecilia Beaux
name: label: Creator
content: Drinker, Henry Sandwith, 1880-1965
label: Names
content: Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942
topic: label: Occupation
content: Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1989 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Drinker, Henry Sandwith, 1880-1965
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880-1965) was a lawyer and amateur musicologist in Pennsylvania. Cecilia Beaux was his mother's sister. Drinker worked on The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1955), a catalogue raisonne of his aunt's work. 

Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was a painter and art instructor in Philadelphia, New York, and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Born in Philadelphia, Beaux studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she later taught. She also studied under William Sartain and at the Académie Julian in Paris.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel (0.3 linear feet on partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.drinhenr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4236 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The microfilmed Henry Drinker research material on Cecilia Beaux contains papers Drinker collected for a catalogue raisonne of his aunt, the painter Cecilia Beaux. Included is a letter from Beaux regarding a painting; a transcript of a lecture Beaux gave on portraiture; and photographs of Beaux with paintings and drawings.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the Cecilia Beaux papers, 1863-1968; the Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux, 1897-1920; and the microfilmed Cecilia Beaux photographs and newsclippings, circa 1890-1912.