Friends of The Modern Woman

Friends of NMWA—invite you to a private reception, lecture and tour of Vancouver Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition, The Modern Woman: Drawings by Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Efrat El Hanany, PhD and Professor of Art History at Capilano University will speak to us about the roles and lives of the women depicted, as well as the lives of the major women artists who practised alongside the men featured in the exhibition. (See below for more on the lecture.)

6:00 | Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served in the Court Room on the 2nd floor of the Gallery.

6:30 | Lecture

7:15 | Private guided tour of the exhibition

Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
Vancouver BC

Lecture with Dr. Efrat El-Hanany
In dialogue with "The Modern Woman" exhibit now showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which focuses on works of celebrated male French artists (Daumier, Degas, Manet, Pissaro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and others), Dr. Efrat El-Hanany will explore women's more active relationship with the visual arts through a consideration of the careers of such 19th-century French Impressionist painters as Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès and Marie Bashkirtseff. This illustrated lecture will include a broader consideration of traditional representations of women in western art and will address such issues such as gender, sexuality, the femme fatale stereotype, the gaze, and the gender-power relationship.

Friends of NMWA Members $30
Future Members $40
(Membership refers to Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts—Canada)

Click HERE for reply card. Payment by cheque is welcome by mail.

604 764 2194 stephanie@nmwa.ca