Subject: RE: Vivekananda in Chicago
From: Baader, Cecilia (cbaader@casecorp.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 18:29:53 EST
> On Friday, January 28, Ed Fenning [ed361@yahoo.com] wrote:
> ...There was also a Women's Pavilion at the same Worlds
> Fair. It was quite an extensive and encompassing
> collection/exhibit.
As a matter of fact, that's absolutely true. If you visit the Mary Cassatt:
Modern Woman exhibition that seems to be making its way around the country,
you can see pictures of the actual 1893 exhibition.
Apparently, Cassatt painted a mural for the exhibition, depicting the
wonders of being a modern woman. Her ideas were too modern for the time,
because it was panned, and someone rolled this gorgeous mural up and either
stored it somewhere unknown, just waiting for a lucky mural-hunter to
discover someday, or they tossed it. Either way, the only way to view the
mural is in the photo, so you can see the exhibition as well.
In retrospect, it seems amazing. I should have liked to have been there, to
say the very least. Cassatt and Vivekananda in the same spot.
Regards,
Cecilia.
(Oh, and the Red Sox? Perish the thought.)
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