Mary, Louisine, and Bertha: Three American Women Who Put Impressionism on the Map

Tue Jan 25 2022 at 06:00 pm to 07:15 pm

Denver Art Museum | Denver

Denver Art Museum
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Mary, Louisine, and Bertha: Three American Women Who Put Impressionism on the Map
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Join us for the third session of the four-part course tied to the exhibition "Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France."
This talk, "Mary, Louisine, and Bertha: Three American Women Who Put Impressionism on the Map" will be with arts and humanities instructor Giulia Bernardini!
Learn more and get tickets, here: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/drawn-france/mary-louisine-bertha
In the early 1880s, Parisian art gallerist Paul Durand-Ruel is on the brink of financial collapse: the French art-buying public is horrified by the modern art he insists on exhibiting. So he takes a giant gamble and sails to the United States with several hundred paintings in tow.
With art history and humanities instructor Giulia Bernardini as your guide, learn about the crucial roles played by artist Mary Cassatt and collectors Bertha Honoré Palmer and Louisine Havemeyer in ensuring the bet paid off beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, cementing the popularity of Impressionist art and the enduring artistic and cultural love affair between France and the US.
This course will take place at the museum in Sharp Auditorium, and online via livestream.
To register for the in-person course in Sharp Auditorium, please purchase an onsite ticket. To register for the livestream of the course, please purchase an online ticket.
You can purchase an onsite ticket for individual sessions or the full course, or an online ticket for individual sessions or the full course.
All course registrants will receive a link to the recorded course session, which will be available to view for two weeks after the course. You do not need to purchase both tickets to access a recording of the course.
Drawn to France is a course with four sessions:
November 30, 2021: Whistler to Cassatt: The Making of an Exhibition
January 4, 2022: Impressionism's Summers
January 25, 2022: Mary, Louisine, and Bertha: Three American Women who put Impressionism on the Map
March 1, 2022: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Black Artists in Paris, c. 1900
Lifelong Learning and Access programs are supported by the William Randolph Hearst Endowment for Education Programs, Nancy Benson Education Endowment Fund, CenturyLink Endowment, Jim Kelley and Amie Knox Education Endowment Fund, and the Cooke-Daniels Fund. Support is also provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, NextFifty Initiative, Colorado Garden Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and the residents who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
"Whistler to Cassatt" exhibition national tour sponsored by Bank of America.
Image: Mary Cassatt, "Young Girl at a Window," c. 1883–1884. Oil paint on canvas; 39-1/2 x 25-1/2 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: Corcoran Collection, museum Purchase, Gallery Fund. Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public Domain.
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