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Dec 9
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is giving an online descriptive tour of the Mary Cassat at Work exhibit. There will be an opportunity to ask questions, and the program will be captioned.
Mary Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879. She 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, needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art making and the work of caregiving. Mary Cassatt at Work calls attention to the artist’s own processes: how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create modern art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.
RSVP for the Mary Cassatt Highly Descriptive Docent Talk
Questions: Please email accessday@famsf.org or call 415-750-7678