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Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker) Get out and see The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before it closes tomorrow!

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker) by Cecilia Beaux is among sixty masterpieces on view in Oklahoma and in our online exhibition.

Cecilia Beaux portrayed the period's leading social and political figures with an appealing elegance that won her great acclaim. “She has painted into her portraits the qualities which are paramount in her,” said one observer. Her brother-in-law Henry Drinker, a railroad magnate and university president, sat for this portrait with his cat.

Source: Richard Murray. The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).

Pictured: Cecilia Beaux, 1855–1942, Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898, oil, 48 x 34 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design.