CECILIA BEAUX’S MASTERPIECE back on view through mid-May
In 2018, due to a stroke of good fortune, the museum acquired Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences,” a masterpiece whose whereabouts were unknown for much of the 20th century.
Beaux created the painting in 1888 during a summer on the French coast as her first major exercise in plein-air (or “open air”) painting. In 2020 Beaux’s painting found renewed attention and popularity and several muse- ums across the country requested to borrow “Twilight Confidences” for their loan exhibitions. After traveling in the blockbuster exhibition “Whistler to Cassatt: Amer- ican Painters in France” at the Denver Art Museum and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the painting has finally returned to Athens after two years, to the delight of staff, docents and visitors alike. The painting went on view at the museum in January 2023 as a prelude to “Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum.” It will come down after May 14 before it goes back out on loan.
Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855–1942), “Twilight Confidences,” 1888. Oil on canvas. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the William Underwood Eiland Endowment for Acquisitions made possible by M. Smith Griffith and the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation. GMOA 2018.117.
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