Carol Porter, is a docent for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She will take us on a virtual tour through the remarkable Mary Cassatt exhibit at the Legion of Honor. (The exhibit can be seen until January 26, 2025.)
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was a modernist pioneer. Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879. She became a key member of the movement. Her paintings, pastels, and prints include many images of “women’s work” — knitting and needlepoint, bathing children and nursing infants. These images provide us with parallels between the work of art- making and the work of caregiving.
Short film on Marry Cassatt’s work: Documentary