Mary Cassatt : An American Impressionist in Paris

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American artist to exhibit with the French Impressionists in Paris. Cassatt celebrated women in an age of rapid female advancement, and she explained her affinity for depicting children, saying they are natural and truthful, two of thequalities that her generation of artists was energetically pursuing. This beautiful book, edited by a preeminent Cassatt scholar, brings together more than sixty important works that span the entirety of Cassatts career. Included here are works across all media in which Cassatt workedoils, pastels, drawings, and printsas well as numerous documentary sources that combine to convey a full and nuanced account of Cassatt as an American artistin Paris. Some of these works, such as Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) and Woman Bathing (189091) are familiar; others are from private collections and have been reproduced rarely, if ever. The result is a fresh look at Cassatt that reaffirms her importance to French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, celebrates her resilience in the male-dominated worlds of French and American art, and demonstrates her ability to reconcile the different realms in which she lived and worked.