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A woman with pale skin and dressed in white sits on a couch gazing into the distance to our left as she raises one arm to stroke a black cat perched on her shoulder in this vertical portrait. Shown from the lap up, the woman’s dress has voluminous, puffed, elbow-length sleeves and a high collar, and her narrow waist is cinched with a white sash. Her dark brown hair is parted down the middle and tied back, and she has pale blue eyes and pink lips. She reaches up to the cat with her left hand, on our right, and her other hand, farther from us, rests flat in her lap. The black cat looks at us with greenish-yellow eyes as it almost disappears into the dark brown background above the white couch, which is decorated with a blue pattern. The artist signed the work with dark letters in the lower left corner: “Cecilia Beaux.”
Cecilia Beaux, Sita and Sarita, c. 1921, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, 1923), 2014.79.1

Sita and Sarita

Cecilia Beaux · c. 1921 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.79.1

Six men wearing ties and four women in long dresses are gathered around a long, rectangular table set near a corner of a room in this horizontal painting. This scene is loosely painted and brushstrokes are visible throughout, so some details are indistinct. One of the long sides of the table stretches across the composition, and angles a little away from us to our left. Closest to us and to our right, a woman wearing a white dress with a high, ruffled collar sits in a wooden chair facing our left in profile. A brick-red fan rests open in her lap. Two more women wearing straw-yellow hats sit among the men on the far side of the table, as the fourth woman stands behind the table, bringing a dish of fruit. That woman's dark hair is gathered loosely atop her head, and she smiles down at a man holding a pipe to his mouth. The men all have short hair and a few of them are cleanshaven. To our left, a man with a full, white beard and possibly wearing glasses sits smoking a dark cigarette or cigar as he looks down, head tipped back, at something he draws or writes in a notebook. At the other narrow end, to our right, a man with a red mustache and beard seems to speak, his mouth open. Many of the people smile, and their gazes travel across the table at all angles. Some lean back in their chairs and others lean toward or on the table. Their clothing is painted mostly in tones of gray, olive green, buttercup yellow, and brown with a few touches of rust red. The table is covered with a white cloth and set with four bottles, a wide-bottomed, glass carafe, and several wine glasses. Vines or another plant grows up the sky-blue, paneled wall to our right and in the corner opposite us, to the left of center. The wall to our left is draped with a red, white, and blue swag hanging from the ceiling. The beams of the ceiling and the underside of the planks there are painted pale teal green. The single light hanging from the ceiling resembles an open flower as the glass sides curve up around the light. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner: “John Sloan.”
John Sloan, Yeats at Petitpas', 1910/c. 1914, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1932), 2014.136.54

Yeats at Petitpas'

John Sloan · 1910/c. 1914 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.54