Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris (Dec. 5)

Despite her status as a foreigner and as an unmarried woman, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the French Impressionist movement and developed a following on both sides of the Atlantic. She cultivated relationships with America’s private collectors, curators and museum trustees—encouraging them to collect Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Those collections now form the nucleus of some of America’s most eminent cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Join us while we explore the life and work of this talented painter, who successfully challenged the conventional ideas of the male-dominated Parisian art world.

Maria Mack D’Amario is an art historian specializing in European decorative arts and the American Gilded Age. A graduate of Denison University, Maria holds a post-graduate diploma in the history of art from the University of Oxford. She also holds an M.A. in the Venetian Renaissance from the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom. Maria has worked with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Royal Collection Trust and Lots Road Galleries. She has served as trustee and steering committee member of the U.K. Friends of the National Museum of Women in The Arts in Washington, D.C.  Currently, Maria works for the Preservation Society of Newport County.