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Mary Cassatt at Work

A Legion of Honor Docent Lecture

Gain a new perspective on Mary Cassatt with FAMSF docent Carol Porter! Explore her groundbreaking art and techniques at the Legion of Honor's "Mary Cassatt at Work" exhibition.

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was the most celebrated woman artist of her era and the only American to join the French Impressionist movement.

Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Cassatt was in fact a bold modernist pioneer and an aesthetically radical painter, pastelist, and printmaker.

Her work in every medium is characterized by ceaseless experimentation and change.

The "Mary Cassatt at Work" exhibition will run through January 26 at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Find library books on Mary Cassatt's work here.

FAMSF docent Carol Porter received her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked as a research and clinical nutritionist and had teaching and leadership roles at several large university medical centers in this country and abroad. 

Carol has always loved art and when she retired, she entered the docent training program at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She gives tours of both the permanent art collections and special exhibitions at the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, supports the development of digital art projects, and leads the art talks program, which brings the museum to the community.

When not at the museum, Carol sings alto in a choir and enjoys her beloved grandchildren.

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