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Forever Seeing New Beauties:
The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams
A Public Talk by Eve M. Kahn, author and former Antiques columnist for The New York TImes

Picture
Grand Canal, c. 1894 pastel, 11½ x 17 in.
by Mary Rogers Williams
Private collection (photo: Ted Hendrickson).


Date
Sunday, March 1, 2020 | 4:30 pm
Admission
$5 members, donors and students; $10 all others
Registration
This program is filled to capacity.
Location
Historic Northampton
46 Bridge Street, Northampton, Massachusetts


Sponsored by Seth Mias Catering


Picture
Undated cyanotype of Mary leafing through paintings.
Private collection.

Mary’s importance is partly due
to quantities of surviving correspondence, paintings
and ephemera.

Picture
Eve M. Kahn, independent scholar and the former Antiques columnist for The New York Times, will lecture on her new book, Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907 (Wesleyan University Press).

Mary Rogers Williams had a 20-year-long teaching career in the art department of Smith College.  A baker's daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, she biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, chafed against art world rules that favored men and wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, but sadly ended up almost totally obscure.  Kahn will explain her own detective work and the Northampton angles of Mary's lively letters and unpublished artworks, which capture pensive gowned women, Norwegian slopes reflected in icy waters, saw-tooth rooflines on French chateaus, incense hazes in Italian chapels, and Connecticut River Valley pastures at sunset.

Copies of Kahn's book Forever Seeing New Beauties will be available for sale (hardcover, $35).


Picture
Picture
Picture
A Girl in Red, undated (pre-1901)
by Mary Rogers Williams
oil on panel, 21 x 14 in.
Private collection
(photo: Ted Hendrickson)

Azay-le-Rideau near Tours, France, undated (probably 1902)
by Mary Rogers Williams
pastel, 9 x 5 in.
Private collection
(photo: Ted Hendrickson

The Pink Gown
(also called Woman in Pink), c. 1895
by Mary Rogers Williams
pastel, 12 x 8 in.
Shown at the New York Water Color Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1895.
Private collection
(photo: Stair Galleries, Hudson, N.Y.)

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  • About
    • About Historic Northampton
    • Hours and Directions
    • What's On View >
      • Main Street Exhibit
      • The Sarah Strong Chest
    • Board-Staff
    • Legal/Financial
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    • Upcoming Programs
    • Past Programs 2022
    • Help I am not receiving email announcements
  • Explore
    • Collections & Research
    • History at Home >
      • Videos
      • Interactive Witch Trial
      • Paper Dolls
      • Hidden Histories
      • Scavenger Hunts
      • Coloring Pages
      • Brain Teasers
      • Peg Doll Hunts
      • Jonathan Edwards Prayer Requests
    • Properties >
      • Parsons House
      • Damon House
      • Shepherd House
      • Shepherd Barn 2020
      • The Bridge Street School Sprouts
    • Educational Websites
    • Historic Highlights
    • COVID-19 Stories >
      • Vaccination Photos
      • Submit Your COVID Story
      • Children React
      • Family and Neighborhood Fun
      • It's a New World
      • Hope and Togetherness
      • Images
      • How Illness Feels
      • Brings Forth Memory
      • Blessings and the New Busy
      • Fear and Worry
  • Indigenous Native History
    • Native Histories in Nonotuck
    • Nonotuck Histories Essay by Margaret M. Bruchac
    • Recovering Nonotuck Histories Photo Essay
    • Profiles of Native People
    • Extended Biographies of Native People
    • Nonotuck to Northampton Maps
    • Native LIves Bibliography
  • History of Slavery
    • About the Slavery Research Project
    • Black Enslaved People
    • Free Black People
    • Native Enslaved People
    • Enslavers of People
    • Relationship Map
    • Timeline of Slavery in Northampton
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