Women caring for children in "the Floating World".(Mary Cassatt )(Cover story)(Biography)

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"A figure of a woman, is lining up a billiard shot, while the figure of a Aman ... stands dreaming in a doorway," writes artist-printmaker Peter Milton (b. 1930). He is describing the photograph by Gertrude Kasebier in 1908, which inspired his print Mary's Turn. "... it was the drama of the purposeful woman and the pensive man which established the direction Mary's Turn was to take" (1). The pensive man was Edgar Degas; the purposeful woman none other than Mary Cassatt, grand dame ...

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