ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a rare case of a two-artist exhibit of a male and female artist – the 1915 exhibition at the M. Knoedler & Co. Gallery in New York that featured Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, organised by Louisine Have-meyer in support of women's suffrage. It inquires, what were the unique circumstances and interests that enabled the 1915 exhibition? The chapter throws light on the political, personal, and artistic commitments that coalesced in shaping this exhibit, investigating its goals, installation, and curatorial strategies. It integrates exhibition studies with art history, proposing that neither can be independent of the other, and in turn to integrate both with gender studies. Titled The Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Old and Modern Painters, the exhibit at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, 6-24 April 1915, featured the art of Cassatt and Degas in the large central space of the gallery along with paintings by Old Masters, shown in two smaller adjacent spaces.
