Gallery Conversation: Highlights of the Potter Palmer Collection

A gallery talk at the Art Institute that traces how Bertha and Potter Palmer built the collection that anchors the museum’s Impressionist holdings. The conversation focuses on the couple’s 1890s buying spree — Bertha acquired most of the works while traveling Europe to organize the World’s Columbian Exposition — and her role in commissioning Mary Cassatt’s mural for the fair’s Woman’s Building. The program meets in Gallery 201 on Friday, December 18, at 2 PM and moves through the second-floor European galleries. Free, no registration required. ASL interpretation available with two weeks’ notice.