A Public Talk by Eve M. Kahn

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 Kahn will explain her own detective work and the Northampton angles of Mary’s lively letters and unpublished artworks, which capture pensive gowned women, Norwegian slopes reflected in icy waters, saw-tooth rooflines on French chateaus, incense hazes in Italian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.

Sponsored by Seth Mias Catering