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Impressionism · United States / France

Mary Cassatt

1844–1926 · Modern life, seen from inside the room

ImpressionismJaponismePrintmakingMotherhood

The short version

Cassatt brought Japanese print structure into Impressionism and built her subject from the parts of modern life men could not access: the theatre box, the nursery, the bath.

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