Mary Cassatt. The Independent

Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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To mark the centenary of the artist's death, the Orsay Museum is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). It is, in France, a highly anticipated event: national museums have never before dedicated a major exhibition to Mary Cassatt, an active member of the Impressionist group and one of its pillars. Her centennial invites us to examine the central place of this… Mary Cassatt described herself as an “American, distinctly and frankly American,” but she first anchored her art in the pictorial tradition of the old masters, learned during her travels in Europe…