September 4, 2010 - January 29, 2011

Outstanding works including drawings, watercolors, lithographs, etchings, and engravings by more than 20 women artists from the seventeenth through twentieth century will be featured this exhibition in the Museum’s Works on Paper Gallery.

Historical works by Elisabetta Sirani, Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eliza Greatorex, and Anna Lea Merritt, will join works from the twentieth century by Käthe Kollwitz, Isabel Bishop, Peggy Bacon, Anne Goldthwaite, Clara Skinner, Grace Hartigan, Francois Gilot, Louise Nevelson, Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning, Elizabeth Osborne, and Beatrice Riese, among others.

The Works on Paper Gallery was opened in 2008 and showcases work from the Museum’s collection of fine art prints, photographs, sketches, etchings and watercolors, featuring 14,000 works spanning five centuries of American and European art history.

Left: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926), Margot Holding a Bonnet, c. 1903, color drypoint, Reading Public Museum