Art Talk: Mary Cassatt - An American in Paris

Thursday, January 18, 2024 From 6:30 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2024-01-18 18:30:00 2024-01-18 20:00:00 Art Talk: Mary Cassatt - An American in Paris Despite her status as a foreigner and as an unmarried woman, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the French Impressionist movement and developed a following on both sides of the Atlantic. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

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Despite her status as a foreigner and as an unmarried woman, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the French Impressionist movement and developed a following on both sides of the Atlantic.
She cultivated relationships with America’s private collectors, curators and museum trustees encouraging them to collect Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Those collections now form the nucleus of some of this country’s most eminent cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Join art expert Maria D’Amario while she explores the life and work of this talented painter who successfully challenged the conventional ideas of the male-dominated Parisian art world.

This presentation will be followed by a Q&A and a glass of wine.

In person event in English. sorry no refund

Member

$18

Non-member

$30

About Maria D’Amario

Maria D’Amario is an art historian specializing in European decorative arts and the American Gilded Age. A graduate of Denison University, Maria holds a post-graduate diploma in The History of Art from the University of Oxford. She also holds an M.A. in the Venetian Renaissance from the University of Warwick in Coventry, U.K. Maria has worked with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Royal Collection Trust in London. For many years she served as trustee of the U.K. Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC) and currently works for The Preservation Society of Newport County.

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