Past Exhibition

Mary Cassatt

Details

  • Dates

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  • Locations

    East Building, Ground Floor, Northwest

Overview: The exhibition included 105 prints, 11 drawings, 3 pastels, and 6 paintings, primarily from the collection of Cassatt prints given to the National Gallery by Lessing J. Rosenwald, as well as works from public and private collections in the United States and abroad. This first large exhibition devoted to Cassatt's color prints was organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art.

Organization: Exhibition curators were Nancy Mowll Mathews, Prendergast curator, Williams College Museum of Art, and Barbara Stern Shapiro, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings, coordinated the exhibition at the National Gallery.

Sponsor: The exhibition was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Other Venues:

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 09/09/1989–11/05/1989
  • Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 11/24/1989–01/21/1990