Chicago Bound: A Jake McGreevy middle-grade novel features the search for Mary Cassatt's lost mural from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago
  • Home
  • THE STORY
  • FIND THE MURAL
  • SIGHTINGS
  • THE BOOK
  • VIDEO
  • CREDITS
  • ART & EVENTS
The "Home" Page:

The Mary Cassatt Mural: Reprinted, by permission, from Stanley Appelbaum, Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World’s Fair, p. 82, ©2009 by Calla Editions, an imprint of Dover Publications, Inc.

The Color Sketch: Mary Cassatt, detail of Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science, center panel of Modern Women, 1893. From William Walton, World's Columbian Exposition Art and Architecture, 3 vols (Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1893), vol on architecture. 

The "Story" Page: 

The Woman's Building: Reprinted, by permission, from Stanley Appelbaum, Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World’s Fair, p. 81, ©2009 by Calla Editions, an imprint of Dover Publications, Inc.

The Palace of Fine Arts: Reprinted, by permission, from Stanley Appelbaum, Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World’s Fair, p. 8, ©2009 by Calla Editions, an imprint of Dover Publications, Inc.

The "Find the Mural" Page:

Picture of a building with the word "University": sshepard / iStock Photo

The "Sightings" Page:

Close-up of sketch of the Cassatt Mural: Mary Cassatt, detail of Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science, center panel of Modern Women, 1893. From William Walton, World's Columbian Exposition Art and Architecture, 3 vols (Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1893), vol on architecture. 

The "Book" Page:

Chicago Twilight painting: By J Loren Reedy: www.jlorenreedy.com

Cassatt's Mural Was Last Seen at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois

About the Lost Cassatt

"Although Cassatt's mural, Modern Woman, was derided by critics of the time, their criticisms are testament to the way in which her depiction of women broke boundaries in the late nineteenth century."
—​Hutton, John. "Picking Fruit: Mary Cassatt's Modern Woman and the Woman's Building of 1893." Feminist Studies 20: 2 (1994): 318-48.

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