Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as some of the finest examples of Impressionist art. A rebel by the Victorian standards of her time, Mary Cassatt moved from the art schools of staid Philadelphia to the boulevards of Paris, where the young Impressionist movement was flourishing. Degas, her friend and mentor, encouraged her involvement in the new art movement.
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Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as some of the finest examples of Impressionist art. A rebel by the Victorian standards of her time, Mary Cassatt moved from the art schools of staid Philadelphia to the boulevards of Paris, where the young Impressionist movement was flourishing. Degas, her friend and mentor, encouraged her involvement in the new art movement.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine brown and yellow pictorial dj. Full page framable color plates throughout. Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as among the finest examples of American Impressionist art-a vivid and touching record of middle-class life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Now, seventy-tow of Cassatt's most important paintings and graphics are meticulously reproduced here in full color-the first time that so many of her works have been made available at a popular prince. Introduced to painting in the art schools of Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt soon left for Paris-a bold and shocking move for a young woman in Victorian America. 155 pp. and bibliography.
