Mary Cassatt, Genteel Powerhouse.

From: The World and I | Date: March 1, 1999 | Copyright information

An exhibition shows that the American Impressionist's telling images of women and children reveal a progressive outlook that reflected new attitudes about women, childhood, and child rearing.

"Mary Cassatt ... fits into the present world without seeming out of date. There is an inner conviction about her work which asserts itself over and above any specific limitations of time and place. ... [She] is by all odds the best woman painter America has ever produced." ----Art curator Frederick Sweet, 1954

A woman of paradox, breeding, daring, artistic genius, and fierce ...

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