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1. 1. Mary Cassatt

   

   A compact, well-researched biography that follows the artist from her Pennsylvania upbringing to her long career in Paris, tracing her development from academic training to a central role in the Impressionist circle; it explores her stylistic evolution and printmaking, her creative exchanges with contemporaries, and her signature focus on women and children that both reflected and challenged contemporary social expectations. The narrative situates her work in its social and historical context, describes the obstacles she faced as an American woman in a male-dominated art world, and assesses her critical reception and enduring influence on modern art.

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