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Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
August 2, 2007
Akela Reason curatorial assistant, American art, High

Akela Reason explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn.

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High Museum of Art
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