
Forever Seeing New Beauties
The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The story of New England's own Mary Cassatt
Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker's daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, trained at the Art Students League, chafed against art world rules that favored men, wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, taught at Smith College for nearly two decades, but sadly ended up almost totally obscure. The book reproduces her unpublished artworks that capture pensive gowned women, Norwegian slopes reflected in icy waters, saw-tooth rooflines on French chateaus, and incense hazes in Italian chapels, and it offers a vivid portrayal of an adventurer, defying her era's expectations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: The Funny Way I Stumbled upon Her
- Notes on Methodology
- 1 Why She Matters
- 2 A Cosmopolitan Emerges
- 3 No Salvation but by Hard Work
- 4 Conveying the Rudiments of Art
- 5 Art, Her Boss’s Jealous Mistress
- 6 A Rare Dear Overseas
- 7 Wholly in Pale Tints
- 8 He Certainly Is Unregenerate
- 9 Strange and Beautiful Things
- 10 Misfit in This Workaday World
- 11 A Pastel Every Five Minutes
- 12 To Exhibit in the Provincial Towns
- 13 My Own Femme de Ménage
- 14 The Most Magic House in the World
- 15 Crisp and Free in Treatment
- 16 A Serene and Confident Air
- 17 I’d Like to Run Away
- 18 Old Friends and Some New Ones
- 19 I Feel Like Thirty Cents
- 20 Light So Exquisite
- 21 Nervous Energy Spent Teaching
- 22 Out of the Harness
- 23 Pangs of Loneliness
- 24 A Peaceful Comfortable Feeling
- 25 Wild to Go Out on a Comet Hunt
- 26 How Hard It Is for My Sisters
- 27 Exquisite and Unerring Artistic Taste
- 28 Logical Custodians in Chaotic Days
- 29 The Resurrectionists
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author