AFA Summer 2021 Preview

HAPPENINGS Summer 16 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women’s Artistic Networks July 8, 2021–July 24, 2022 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), 118-128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa For information visit pafa.org or call 215.972.7600 PAFA has the remarkable distinction of actively promoting women artists since its first annual exhibition in 1811. At the turn of the 20th century Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), the first full-time female professor of painting at PAFA, expressed the hope that the hour was near “when the term ‘Women in Art’ will be as strange-sounding a topic as ‘Men in Art’ would be now.” While this quote reveals much about the exciting developments of the professional ambitions and accomplishment of women artists in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Beaux’s quote, and indeed her very artistic reputation— nowhere near as well-known as her contemporary and rival Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)—reveal how far scholarship has yet to advance in the study of American women artists. This exhibition and its accompanying catalog will introduce PAFA’s audiences to the networks of talented women artists and will include more than 80 works of art by more than 50 women artists working professionally in the American art world from PAFA’s founding in 1805 to the end of World War II. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Baby on Mother’s Arm, c. 1891. Oil on canvas, 25 x 19¾ in. Bequest of Peter Borie. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.