From October 5, 2024 to January 26, 2025, the Effective Arts Museums of San Francisco will current “Mary Cassatt at Work”, a significant mortgage exhibition targeted on the good girl Impressionist.
Supply: Effective Arts Museums of San Francisco · Picture: Mary Cassatt, Little Lady in a Blue Armchair, 1877–1878. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 in. (89.5 x 129.5 cm). Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington, DC, Assortment of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.18
The exhibition presents Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) as a fiercely skilled artist and an aesthetically radical painter, pastelist, and printmaker who helped form the French Impressionist motion and reworked the course of recent artwork. Cassatt produced photos of “women’s work”—knitting and needlepoint, bathing kids, nursing infants—that additionally testify to the work of the girl who made them: the marks of her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips. Juxtaposing work, pastels, and prints, Mary Cassatt at Work will discover the artist’s exercise throughout media, revealing the daring, iterative strategies she used to offer type to her concepts. Along with 120 objects on mortgage from establishments together with the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, and the Museum of Effective Arts, Boston, the exhibition will current a gaggle of distinguished works–together with Cassatt’s magisterial oil portrait of her mom plus two lately acquired pastels–from the Effective Arts Museums’ assortment. The primary North American retrospective of Cassatt’s work in 25 years, this exhibition’s sole West Coast venue would be the Legion of Honor.
“Mary Cassatt at Work disrupts any preconceived notion that Cassatt was a sentimental painter and sheds fresh light on her groundbreaking practice,” remarked Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Effective Arts Museums of San Francisco. “It is fitting that this exhibition, which celebrates Cassatt’s daring and modernity, will open our yearlong centennial celebration of the Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor was cofounded in 1924 by another intrepid female pioneer, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who shared Cassatt’s deep attachment to French culture and bold vision for the future of art in America.”
