Women making history in art : Mary Cassatt
Date
Oct 15, 2024 6:00 PM
Location
skylight gallery
Sponsors
Admission
Open to the public
RSVP required
$20 | General admission
$10 | Salmagundi members
About the Event
The Salmagundi Club presents a series of four talks on the incredibly versatile – and often unheralded – professional women who made art in the century before pre-World War II. They were painters, printmakers, sculptors, designers, woodworkers, weavers, and entrepreneurs.
Join us for the inaugural talk of the series: the great American artist Mary Cassatt. Her work was the subject of a ground-breaking retrospective and reappraisal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art earlier this year, now at the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco.
This New York Times article delves into Cassatt’s depiction of modern women as mothers and individuals, rather than appealing to the male gaze.
Hungry?
Grab a bite to eat after the event from our dining room (a normally member-only benefit)! Ticketed attendees who would like to stay for drinks and dinner should make dining reservations in advance via our Reservations page with the message “Mary Cassatt dinner”.
About the Speaker
Few people are better qualified to speak about Cassatt than Kathleen Foster. She is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Senior Curator of American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Director of the Museum’s Center for American Art and an Adjunct Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a curator at the Indiana University Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She has been the recipient of numerous grants including an NEH grant, and has curated exhibitions on Homer, Sargent, Wyeth, Stuart Davis, Calder and German Expressionism – to name a few.Dr. Foster received her Ph.D. in the History of Art at Yale University after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College.
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