Mary Cassatt, Once Seen as Peripheral, Looks Increasingly Like a Central Figure in the Impressionist Movement
Cassatt may be rightly celebrated as the genius of female domesticity, but, as an upcoming show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art underscores, her entire career was a feminist endeavor.
Mary Cassatt has been mostly remembered as the master of domestic scenes between mothers and children, an American painter loosely affiliated with the French Impressionists. Closer scrutiny to her story, however, is making it clear that she was much more than a peripheral figure.
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