Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman

Date: 10/18/23 6:00 PM
Website: adfilmseries.org
Location: Burlington, Brattleboro, and Virtual

MARY CASSATT: PAINTING THE MODERN WOMAN
October 18, 2023 | Doors 6pm, Screening 6:30pm
Live at Contois Auditorium, Burlington & 118 Elliot, Brattleboro
Screen from Home, Same Day Only
Directed by Ali Ray
2023, Great Britain, 93 Minutes
PREVIEW

*Guest Speaker (Burlington Venue): Carolyn Bauer, Curator at Shelburne Museum, will introduce the film with an exploration into the multifaceted relationships between artist Mary Cassatt and art collectors Louisine Havemeyer and Electra Havemeyer Webb. Illustrated with artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection, uncover the intertwined lives and various passions of these remarkable and trailblazing women.

Mary Cassatt was a classically trained artist who chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. She made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, the world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this 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.

Contact: AD Film Series
Email: adfilmseries@ gmail.com