Jennifer Thompson | Mary Cassatt’s Models

Jennifer Thompson- The Gloria and Jack Drosdick Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents: Mary Cassatt’s Models

The talk will explore the range of models employed by Mary Cassatt—the family members, domestic staff, neighbors, and acquaintances who posed for her—and how Cassatt’s pictures reflect reality and create fictions.