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A new Exhibition on Screen film featuring Mary Cassatt, one of America's most well known artists and one of the leading, though lesser known, French Impressionists, is released and screened at Chepstow's Drill Hall on International Women's Day, March 8th 7.30pm. The showing, organised and in support of MonLife Heritage Museums follows last year's popular film by the same female director, Ali Ray, on Frida Kahlo on this significant date in the Calendar, when the often unsung work by women can take centre stage.

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed

them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1844, Cassatt lived much of her adult life in France. She was a classically

trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals - the Impressionists – a movement that

transformed the language of art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted.

The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars (all women) help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change - a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written.

Book tickets £10 online www.drillhallchepstow.co.uk or at the door on the night from 6.45pm