Learn More About the Curator Nancy Mowll Mathews is the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at the Williams College Museum of Art. She directs the Prendergast Archive and Study Center at WCMA, conducting ongoing research and organizing exhibitions and publications on the Prendergasts and their era (1850-1950). She is the co-author of two catalogues raisonnés: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints (1989) and Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné (1990) and is currently president of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association. In addition, she is the author of five other books on Mary Cassatt, including the influential biographical study, Mary Cassatt: A Life (1998) and several books and exhibitions on Maurice and Charles Prendergast. She recently published the critically acclaimed Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life (2001) and edited a volume of essays, American Dreams: American Art in the Williams College Museum of Art to 1950 (2001). She is currently finishing a major book and exhibition, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (July 2005), which will explore the interconnections between the new technology of film and the visual arts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mathews received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U., and has been at Williams College since 1988. She teaches in the Williams College Art Department and Graduate Program in the History of Art.