Quote by Mary Cassatt

This volume compiles a selection of letters written by and to Mary Cassatt, providing readers with a direct perspective on the experiences of a prominent female artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through her personal correspondence with family, friends, art collectors, and fellow artists, the book illuminates her active role in the French Impressionist movement and her influential efforts in introducing avant-garde European art to the United States. The assembled writings reveal her candid opinions on contemporary art, her professional challenges and triumphs, and the broader cultural and social milieu in which she lived and worked. more