Exhibition on Screen | Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman

Mary Cassatt’s astonishing prints, pastels and paintings of mothers and children, yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals—the Impressionists—a movement that transformed the language of art. She was as much a part of the group as Degas, Monet, or Renoir. The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars reveal a riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.

After the screening there will be a Q & A led by Art Historian Julie Levin Caro, head of the Museum’s learning & engagement department.