Discovering the Women Impressionists

Young Mother in Her Garden date unknown Mary Cassatt

The exhibition, “Discovering the Impressionists - Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting” showed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, traveled to Pennsylvania after showing at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (where it was titled “Paul Durand-Ruel: The Gamble of the Impressionists” and at the National Gallery in London where it was called “Inventing Impressionism - The Man Who Sold a Thousand Monets”. If you did not had the opportunity to see the exhibition, here is an interesting story about it from NPR:

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/18/427190686/durand-ruel-the-art-dealer-who-liked-impressionists-before-they-were-cool.)

Griselda Pollock, a Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art at University of Leeds wrote an article critical of the exhibition and its lack of representation of the women artists of the early Impressionist movement whose important works were also collected and exhibited by Durand-Ruel. (The …