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...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...
Assembled from museums and private collections all over the U.S. and installed in the Baltimore Museum by the No. 1 Cassatt expert, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, the show contained 156 of Mary Cassatt's finest oils, pastels, dry points, color prints and drawings, surrounded with side shows of letters, photographs and paintings by such famed Cassatt contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir. For Mary Cassatt, who went to Europe in 1868 to study art, lived there the rest of her long life, an expatriate American, never got full recognition from either France...
Just what it was that turned tall, determined Mary Cassatt from the conventional life of a Philadelphia society girl to a career of painting on the Paris boulevards of the 1870s has always been shrouded in a cloud of Victorian propriety. Against the wishes of her banker father, who roared that he would almost rather see her dead than a painter, prim, self-willed Philadelphian Cassatt sailed off to Europe alone at the age of 23, remained there, except for a trip or two, until her death in 1926. Impatient with the conservative French academies where other U.S. students complacently...
...making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until Degas' death in 1917, became the closest relationship Mary Cassatt ever had with a member of the opposite...
...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...