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Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
Dr. Charles Loomis Dana
signed 'Cecilia Beaux.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
46 x 3114 in. (116.8 x 79.4 cm.)
Painted in 1916.
Provenance
The artist.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1916.
Literature
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1955, p. 38.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sixth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, December 17, 1916-January 21, 1917, no. 163 (as Portrait of Dr. Dana).
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American physician Charles Loomis Dana (1852-1935) published over 250 articles during his accomplished career, which covered neurology, general pathology, medical psychology and public health. He was a professor of nervous and mental disease at Cornell Medical College from 1902 until his retirement in 1934.

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