Mary Cassatt at Work is the exhibition on view June 21 – October 12, 2025 at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA). It features 30 pastels, oil paintings, and prints, as well as personal correspondence, that chronicle Cassatt’s six-decade career as a visual radical who — although born independently wealthy — proceeded to make her own living through art. The only American invited to join the French Impressionist circle, she employed materials and processes that pushed boundaries, inspired particularly by Japanese prints then flowing into France, of which HoMA has one of the largest collections outside Japan.
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has loaned 22 objects, this show also contains eight works from HoMA’s collection, including a drypoint that was among the works gifted by its founder, Anna Rice Cooke, in 1927. Cassatt’s imagery highlights roles traditionally assigned to women such as caregiving, nursing, and making music, so the curators have undertaken fresh research on the class implications of such “invisible work.”
Also on view (May 22–August 17) is an exhibition devoted to Ikeda Shōen (1886–1917), one of the first Japanese women recognized for her printmaking.
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