Business of Fine Arts Experience with Legion of Honor

Join us for a fun day exploring the intersection of art and commerce at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco!

Date: January 11, 2025

Time: 9:45AM

Location: Legion of Honor Museum

Event Highlights:

• 9:45AM: Check In
• 10:00AM: Guided docent tour of the "Mary Cassatt at Work" gallery
• 11:05AM: Insider talk with Meghan McCauley, Senior Director of Membership and Individual Giving on the business dynamics of fine arts
• 12:00PM: Free entry to the Legion of Honor & Ticket to Mary Cassatt at Work
• 1:00PM: OPTIONAL free talk "A Closer Look: European Costume and Textiles at the Legion of Honor"

Network with fellow USC Marshall alumni while gaining unique insights into the economic landscape of artistic institutions.

Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer. Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change. Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work” — knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art making and the work of caregiving. The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making — how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.

Host or Publisher USC Marshall Alumni Association - Bay Area Chapter