Please join us on Thursday, December 7, at 7PM ET for the Virtual Salon “Artists’ Friendships.” This series of online events is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art.

In this Virtual Salon, three distinguished curators, Emily A. Beeny, Ashley E. Dunn, and Kimberly A. Jones, will discuss past, present, and future exhibitions that focus on dialogues between three pairs of artists: Manet and Degas, Manet and Morisot, and Cassatt and Degas. The panel will be moderated by Michelle Foa.

Emily A. Beeny is Curator in Charge of European Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she is preparing an exhibition on Manet and Morisot. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has held curatorial appointments at the Getty Museum, the MFA, Boston, and the Norton Simon Museum.

Ashley E. Dunn is Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for nineteenth-century French drawings, prints, and illustrated books. Her exhibition projects at The Met include Manet/Degas (2023), Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix (2018) and Rodin at The Met (2017).

Kimberly A. Jones is Curator of Nineteenth-Century French Paintings in the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Among her many exhibitions and catalogues are Degas at the Races (1998); Edouard Vuillard (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008); Degas/Cassatt (2014); and Degas at the Opéra (2019–2020).

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This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: https://tinyurl.com/art-friendships.