A conversation on three Impressionist friendships

Friends, colleagues, collaborators, and competitors: to each other, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, Manet and Edgar Degas, and Degas and Mary Cassatt were all these things and more. Join curators of recent exhibitions that have explored these three relationships for a wide-ranging discussion of mutual influence and inspiration within the Impressionist circle. Plan your visit to see Manet & Morisot at the Legion of Honor here: https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/man... About the speakers Kimberly A. Jones is curator of 19th-century French paintings at the National Gallery of Art. A former museum fellow at the Musée National du Château de Pau and the Musée d’Orsay, she joined the staff of the National Gallery in 1995. Her exhibitions include Degas at the Races (1998), Edouard Vuillard (2003), Degas/Cassatt (2014), Frederic Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism (2017), and most recently Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment (2024). She has also lectured and published widely in the field of 19th-century art. Ashley E. Dunn is associate curator in the department of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for 19th-century French works on paper. 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). She has also contributed to exhibition publications at the RISD Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, where she received her PhD in 2019. Emily A. Beeny is chief curator of the Legion of Honor and Barbara A. Wolfe Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Since joining the Museums in 2021, she has spearheaded a series of major paintings acquisitions and overseen the reinstallation of the Legion’s Baroque galleries. A specialist in French paintings and drawings of the 17th–19th century, she received her PhD from Columbia University and has held curatorial appointments at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.