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Mary Cassatt and the Impressionists
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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Mary Cassatt was the only American painter ever to be
accepted into the French Impressionist group that included Degas, Pissaro, Monet, and Renoir.
Her father's reaction to her desire to pursue a career as
an artist was to declare: "I would almost rather see you dead."
Nevertheless, by the time Cassatt was twenty-one, she
settled in Paris to study art. France, at that time even more hostile to women than America, denied her entry to formal classes. Refusing to be intimidated, she obtained licenses to copy masterpieces in the Louvre, saying later that "the instruction of the museum was sufficient."
"Of the many programs offered during the fall, Robin
Lane's An Afternoon with Mary Cassatt was truly the most successful."
The Worcester Art Museum, January, 1998
"Mary Cassatt and the Impressionists was an entertaining
and informative event that engaged our audience and gave them a different and lively way to learn about the artist and her ideas."
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May, 1999
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Robin Lane as Mary Cassatt
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