Margaret Smith Gallery

09/26/2026

❤️❤️

Bold color, rich pattern, and Kathy Daywalt's signature Yupo shimmer — all in one grouping. A figure, a hillside, and two vases of blooms, each rewarding a second look. https://galleryc.net/artists/kathy-daywalt/

09/24/2026

A very good list

09/09/2026

Another favorite

Mary Cassatt spent nearly 60 years in France, but no French national museum has ever given her a major exhibition until now. This fall, the Musée d’Orsay is changing that with Mary Cassatt: Being Independent, opening October 6. It also comes exactly 100 years after her death in 1926.

There will be nearly 80 paintings, pastels, and prints covering her whole career, including works from American collections that are rarely shown outside the United States. Cassatt was an American through and through, but she became an important member of the Impressionist group in France and took part in four of their exhibitions, starting in 1879.

What I find particularly interesting is the focus on her independence. Cassatt had her own studio, paid her models, built her career in a largely male art scene, and later supported women’s suffrage. So there’s quite a bit more to her story than the mother and child paintings many of us know her for.

The exhibition runs from October 6, 2026, through January 31, 2027, so if you’re heading to Paris this fall or winter, I’d put this one on the list. Would you like to see it?

📍 Paris / 7th Arrondissement, Île de France

09/07/2026

Loved carrying his work!

09/02/2026

06/05/2026

05/06/2026

A favorite artist

Kathy Daywalt, "Forever Bouquet", Watercolor, 24 x 18
The 2026 All Things Great and Small Show

04/22/2026

Nope. Sorry for the confusion. It wasn’t me.

Before Chelsea Clinton crossed the finish line of the 130th Boston Marathon on Boylston Street in April 2026, she had to earn her way there the same as every other runner, with no shortcuts and no exceptions. In the women's 45 to 49 age group, the Boston qualifying standard is 3 hours and 45 minutes. Chelsea ran the 2025 New York City Marathon in 3 hours, 44 minutes, and 22 seconds, qualifying for Boston by just 38 seconds. She had run six marathons before Boston, including the New York City race four times. She registered under a pseudonym to avoid attention, listing herself as Margaret Smith, a name deliberately chosen to honor Margaret Chase Smith, the Maine congresswoman who was the first woman in American history to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the first woman to actively seek a major party's presidential nomination. Chelsea had written about her before in her book series for young readers, celebrating women who stood up in the face of being told they could not. She then ran 26.2 miles on a notoriously punishing course, split almost evenly across both halves, and finished in a personal best. At the finish line, her parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton, were waiting to place the medal around her neck, alongside 2014 Boston champion Meb Keflezghi. The whole thing was exactly as human as it sounds.