The Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade exhibit will be at the Legion of Honor Museum through September 24.  Free general admission passes can be downloaded from Discover & Go with your MARINet library card. See library website for more details.

Join Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco docent Virginia Ernster for a colorful exploration of a remarkable period in Paris, when the millinery trade was at its height and Impressionist painters captured the latest trends in hats.  From 1870 to 1914, one thousand milliners in the city created a rich array of hats, covered with silk flowers, ribbons, ostrich plumes and even whole birds.  Hats were fascinating to artists such as Edgar Degas, who appreciated the creativity and talent of the modistes who made them and reveled in depicting their sumptuous textures.  The Legion of Honor exhibit features 60 Impressionist paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas, Renoir, Manet, Cassatt and Toulouse-Lautrec, along with 40 exquisite examples of period hats.     

 ~Sponsored by the Friends of the Sausalito Library