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Mary Lawrence, a New York Sculptor and Her Fellow Artists in the Gilded Age

art talks nycJoin author Mary Tonetti Dorra for an illustrated talk about her namesake grandmother, Mary Lawrence Tonetti, one of America’s very few publicly recognized female sculptors during the Gilded Age. The New York-born artist was the only woman allowed to exhibit a sculpture outside the Woman’s Building in the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Her friends and colleagues included such venerable Gilded Age artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens (for whom she also worked as an assistant), Charles McKim and Stanford White. Dorra will evoke this transformative era in American art and society drawing on her historical novel Demeter’s Choice: A Portrait of My Grandmother as a Young Artist (2014).

Book signing to follow.

Co-sponsored by the Art Students League of New York and the National Sculpture Society.











When: Thu., Apr. 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: $16
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art talks nycJoin author Mary Tonetti Dorra for an illustrated talk about her namesake grandmother, Mary Lawrence Tonetti, one of America’s very few publicly recognized female sculptors during the Gilded Age. The New York-born artist was the only woman allowed to exhibit a sculpture outside the Woman’s Building in the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Her friends and colleagues included such venerable Gilded Age artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens (for whom she also worked as an assistant), Charles McKim and Stanford White. Dorra will evoke this transformative era in American art and society drawing on her historical novel Demeter’s Choice: A Portrait of My Grandmother as a Young Artist (2014).

Book signing to follow.

Co-sponsored by the Art Students League of New York and the National Sculpture Society.

Buy tickets/get more info now