Women Impressionists and the Land: A Talk by Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will present Women Impressionists and the Land, the major exhibition he has curated for the museum.

The exhibition—the first devoted specifically to landscape and nature imagery in the work of women Impressionists—examines how artists including Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and Blanche Hoschedé-Monet represented forests, gardens, parks, agricultural landscapes, seascapes, and other outdoor environments. Kelly’s presentation will consider how these artists used landscape as a space of artistic experimentation, professional independence, and engagement with the changing natural world.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
10:00–11:20 a.m.
Room: TBA
Language: French

About Simon Kelly

Simon Kelly has served as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum since 2010. A specialist in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art, he has published extensively on Impressionism, landscape painting, Henri Matisse, Théodore Rousseau, and the development of the modern art market. His previous exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum include Matisse and the Sea, Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape, and Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí. Before joining the museum, he worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he also taught art history.

Organized by the French Connexions Franco-American Center at WashU, the talk will be conducted in French and is open to the WashU community and the broader Francophone community of St. Louis.

Learn more about Women Impressionists and the Land at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Contact:
Dr. Lionel Cuillé, Director of the French Connexions Franco-American Center — lcuille@wustl.edu