Word: cassatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes; a few top women pianists* and virtually no memorable violinists...
Directors-at-large, to serve for three years, are: William A. Barron, Jr. '14, Boston, manufacturer; Augustus Thorndike '19, Boston, surgeon; Alexander J. Cassatt '27, Philadelphia, insurance executive; and Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, New York City, banker. The Graduate Schools director, to serve for three years: Donald H. McLaughlin, San Francisco, Cal., geologist and educator...
...Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts jurymen ponderously examined a group of paintings secretly padded with two genuine masterpieces-a Whistler and a Mary Cassatt. "Not bad, not bad at all," the jurymen agreed...
Epilogue: slick, fashionable Portraitist Jean-Gabriel Domergue, who perpetrated the hoax, asked the public to guess, by ballot, which and what the jokers were. Only one voter found the Cassatt, no one spotted the Whistler...
...woman of wealth, Painter Cassatt might have let her work as an artist dawdle dilettantishly in the wake of a brilliant social career among the intelligentsia of 19th-Century Paris. Parisian bigwigs like Statesman Georges Clemenceau, Authors Emile Zola and Stephane Mallarme, as well as half the great names of French painting, frequented her Paris studio. U.S. art collectors, like the late Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, sought the assistance of her practiced eye in picking items which later found their way into the greatest U.S. museums. Her fiery championship of her fellow Impressionist painters did much to further French Impressionism...