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Panel Conversation—A New View of Women Impressionists
Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art, will moderate a conversation about the overlooked importance of landscape imagery in the work of the women Impressionists. Discussion will focus on a number of newly discovered paintings. Panelists include Mary Morton, curator and head French paintings at the National Gallery of Art; Galina Olmsted, associate curator of European art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Bill Scott, artist and collector.
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, French, 1865–1947; Haystack at Giverny, c.1893; oil on canvas; 19 7/8 x 32 1/2 inches; Alice and Rick Johnson 2026.07
About the panelists
Mary Morton
Mary Morton has been curator and head of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art since 2010. She previously served as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and associate curator of European art at the MFA, Houston. She has published widely on artists including Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Camille Corot, Jean-Léon Gérômen, and Auguste Renoir. In 2018, Morton was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by France’s Ministry of Culture.
Galina Olmstead
Galina Olmsted joined Mia in 2024 as associate curator of European art. Prior to her arrival at Mia, she was a curator at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and worked in curatorial departments at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. A specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century European art, Olmsted contributed to the exhibition catalogues accompanying “Van Gogh Repetitions” in 2013, “Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye” in 2015, and “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men, in 2024.
Bill Scott
An expert colorist, Bill Scott draws from nature and his own imagination, making paintings that complicate firm boundaries between the abstract and the representational. Although his canvases overflow with lush renderings of flora and fauna, he has little interest in copying directly from nature. Instead, each painting is an offering of a perfect window view, an idealized garden, or a feeling evoked by the final days of a season.
Ticket information
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