Dr. Susan J. Rawles, Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, will take us behind the scenes of VMFA’s latest exhibition, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. Experience the work of painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who left the United States as expatriates and returned as some of the greatest influencers to shape the course of American art and learn more about the process of bringing their stories to life at VMFA.
Idle Hours (Detail), ca. 1894, William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916), oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 35 1/2 in., Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. A member sits on a bench in a gallery, admiring a painting.