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Examines the life and works of American impressionistic painter Mary Cassatt.

This book presents 120 reproductions of paintings by 33 American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and many other artists.

"A true historical painter ... is one who paints the life he sees about him, and so makes a record of his own epoch." This principle, voiced by the Impressionist Childe Hassam, was heeded by the artists whose contributions are the focus of this volume: the American Impressionists and the Realists of the generation that succeeded them. The authors of the book, which accompanies a major exhibition, illuminate the continuities and differences between...