Meet Eve M. Kahn, Author of "Forever Seeing New Beauties"

Learn about the fascinating but forgotten artist, Mary Rogers
Williams, on Thursday, December 12 at 6:30 p.m., when Eve M. Kahn,
author of Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary
Rogers Williams, 1857- 1907, visits the Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr.
Building of The Ferguson Library.

Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker's
daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, biked and hiked from the Arctic
Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, trained at the
Art Students League, chafed against art world rules that favored men,
wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, taught at Smith
College for nearly two decades, but sadly ended up almost totally
obscure. The book reproduces her unpublished artworks and offers a vivid
portrayal of an adventurer, defying her era's expectations.

Click here to read the feature in Vogue about Forever Seeing New Beauties.

Eve M. Kahn is an independent scholar specializing in art and
architectural history, design and preservation, and was weekly Antiques
columnist at The New York Times, 2008—2016. She contributes regularly to
the Times, The Magazine Antiques, Apollo, and Atlas Obscura.

Refreshments will be served. Book sale and signing.

The Ernest A. DiMattia Building of The Ferguson Library is located at the corner of Bedford and Broad Streets, Stamford.

For more information, call 203 351-8231.