A Lingering Impression; Mary Cassatt, Bringing Out The Best in Her Privileged Women From: The Washington Post | Date: June 6, 1999| Author: Jo Ann Lewis | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Mary Cassatt--the only American ever invited to exhibit with the French impressionists--was a talented, highborn expatriate artist from Philadelphia who spent her life painting variations on a single theme: the daily activities of the cultured, upper-crust women she knew in Paris.

Talent aside, they were much like her: French or American, they wore hats and gloves while sipping tea from gold-rimmed cups, dressed elegantly for the theater and read quietly in gardens with dogs on their l...

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	Devotion to work The Spectator ; Exhibitions 3 Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman (The Art Institute, Chicago, till 10 January) Devotion to work Roger Kimball In some ways it is unfortunate that the single best picture in this retrospective of Mary Cassatt's work is a portrait of the artist by her friend Edgar Degas. Painted in the early
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	Unmarried mother.(books about artist Mary Cassatt) The Women's Review of Books ; Mary Cassatt may now be the most successful woman artist ever. A major exhibition of her life's work went on display at the Chicago Art Institute last fall, where it attracted at least 450,000 visitors. That exhibition then moved to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where within two weeks of opening
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	Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman.(Review) The Women's Review of Books ; Art Institute of Chicago, October 10,1998-January 10, 1999; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, February 14-May 9, 1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 6-September 6, 1999. Mary Cassatt may now be the most successful woman artist ever. A major exhibition of her life's work went on display at
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