Impressionism with a Woman's Touch: Mary Cassatt

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Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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This talk features the American Impressionist Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926), whose oil paintings, pastels, and prints focused primarily on women and children engaged in everyday life. Born into comfortable circumstances, at the age of 16 Mary went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for two years of study. Most of her artistic life, however, was spent in France, where she joined the French Impressionists--especially Edgar Degas--in style and friendship, and acted as an adviser to American art collectors. Local museums, such as the Newark Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will help tell her story.

 

Speaker will be in person and the event will be live streamed over Zoom.