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Impressionist art by women at San Francisco museum
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Impressionist paintings by four women will be the focus of an exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco this summer.

The exhibition, ''Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond,'' will run June 21 to Sept. 21.

The museum says that in the 19th century, these painters were ''marginalized because of strict social rules and the artists' gender'' and that they were ''treated with critical ambivalence.'' All four women were born in the 1840s, lived in Paris and were members of Impressionist circles.

Morisot was married to the brother of painter Edouard Manet. Cassatt, the only American among the four, was friends with Edgar Degas. Gonzales studied with Manet and is known for her portraits. Bracquemond was self-taught and exhibited with other Impressionist painters of the day, but her husband disapproved and she eventually stopped painting.

For more information, visit www.legionofhonor.org.

Indoor water park opens in Idaho

Skiing and surfing overlapped for a weekend at the Silver Mountain Resort, as the ski season ended June 1 and the new Silver Rapids Indoor Waterpark opened May 30.

The 42,000-square-foot indoor water park includes a FlowRider Surf Wave surfing machine, a family raft ride with a water slide, two enclosed tube slides, a lazy river, a spray deck for toddlers, an activity pool with basketball hoops, a watery obstacle course, and a multilevel play structure with a giant tipping bucket. For adults, there's a hot-tub area with a bar.

For more information, visit www.silvermt.com or 800-204-6428.

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