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Join Claire and David Cunningham for the museum visit, lunch and discussion.
See the work of this unique American artist who spent much of her life in France and was a close friend and artistic colleague of Edgar Degas. Cassatt was both an artist of some merit in France and a promoter of French art in the US.
Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer. Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change. Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’ invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work”—knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art-making and the work of care-giving. The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making— how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.
After viewing the art, we will join together for lunch at the Legion Cafe where we will seek to sit together and discuss what we have just seen.
Date: Friday November 15th
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: The Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Meet in the museum lobby behind the check-in counters (look for the PBK placard), then at 12:00 Noon in the museum cafe.
Parking: At the museum
PBKNCA leaders: David and Claire Cunningham
Limit 18
Fees:
1/ PBK Registration fee: $10 (for scholarships)
2/ The Museum entrance fee on the day of the event is $20 regular, $17 seniors. To pay the entrance fee in advance, go to:
https://www.famsf.org/visit/legion-tickets-hours
Museum members do not have to pay an entrance fee.
3/ There may be an additional fee for the Cassatt show.
4/ Optional $8 for Audio tour headset
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