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NEXT week the Wichita Art Museum will show off a new acquisition that any museum in the world would be proud of: the Mary Cassatt painting opposite. The picture lends great distinction to a collection only 14 years in the making. Using the half-million-dollar estate willed by the widow of a local newspaper publisher, Roland P. Murdock, the museum has already bought 113 works of American art. The Cassatt is the best of this year's seven purchases...
...Woman's vocation in life," said Painter Cassatt once, "is to bear children." She produced hundreds of children, but they were all on canvas. The daughter of a rich Philadelphia banker, Mary Cassatt embarked for Paris in 1868, when she was only 23. She spent the rest of her long life abroad, in obdurate and unremitting labor at the easel, and made herself the best female painter America has produced. She stayed a spinster all her life, but her favorite theme was that of mother and child. Without sentimentalizing the mother-child relationship, she pictured it clear, and each...
...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...
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...