Mary Cassatt Modern Woman

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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) holds a unique place in the history of art. One of the few women artists to succeed professionally in her era she was the only American invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists. This handsome volume richly illustrated with paintings prints and pastels spanning Cassatts entire career accompanies a major traveling exhibition that opens at The Art Institute of Chicago in October 1998. Essays trace Cassatts development from her early influences through her critical role in bringing Old Master and Impressionist art to the United States. The superb colorplates clearly demonstrate why Cassatt is considered one of North Americas most important artists. Supplementary works by Cassatts contemporaries are reproduced along with numerous photographs and the first complete list of exhibitions in which Cassatt participated in her lifetime. The exhibition travels to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. Ju