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Reclaiming Mary Cassatt: putting overlooked American artist back at heart of impressionism
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New exhibition restores painter’s place as leading figure in French movement that revolutionised art As a painter, friend, and collaborator of Edgar Degas, who exhibited with impressionist artists including Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the 1
New exhibition restores painter’s place as leading figure in French movement that revolutionised art As a painter, friend, and collaborator of Edgar Degas, who exhibited with impressionist artists including Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the 19th-century movement that emerged in France and revolutionised art. She was also a woman and foreign – “American, American through and through” is how she described herself. As a result, in the 100 years since her death, Cassatt has been frequently overlooked in the country where she produced her best work.
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