text: Art in the Spotlight: Molly Peacock | Art Gallery of Ontario
  Art in the Spotlight: Molly Peacock
  Tuesday, September 28th @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  Tuesday, September 28, 4 pm
  Join writer Molly Peacock with curators Kathleen Foster (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Georgiana Uhlyarik (Art Gallery of Ontario) for a conversation about Mary Hiester Reid, a painter active in the 1880s who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes. Born in the US in 1854, trained by Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Mary Hiester Reid balanced creativity and domesticity while she fought for her place as a professional artist. She is the subject of Molly Peacock's latest book Flower Diary: in which Mary Hiester Reid paints, travels, marries & opens a door.
  Copies of Flower Diary: in which Mary Hiester Reid paints, travels, marries & opens a door are available for sale at shopAGO.
  Kathleen A. Foster is The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With degrees from Wellesley College (B.A.) and Yale University (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), she has held curatorial posts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Indiana University Art Museum, and taught at Williams College, Temple University, Indiana University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she currently serves as an adjunct professor in the History of Art. She has published work on topics in American art from the late-eighteenth century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the work of Thomas Eakins, including the prize-winning Thomas Eakins Rediscovered (1997), two essays in the catalogue for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Thomas Eakins (2001), the reconstruction of Eakins's own drawing manual (2005), and the recent An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew (2012).