Impressionism with a Woman's Touch: Mary Cassatt on Zoom or simulcast in person

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.

Mike got his BA in classics from the University of California at San Diego and his MA in classics and Ph.D. in art history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He spent twenty years at the Cloisters Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has lectured all over the world.

This presenter will NOT be at the library in person.

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