Mary Morton — Cassatt Reconsidered - with Dr. Dorothy Kosinski — at Conn Ave

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A sweeping reconsideration of the artist we thought we knew—and the forces that obscured her legacy. Fiercely ambitious and independent, Mary Cassatt defied expectations to become one of the most radical artists of the Impressionist movement, though she was—and remains—the least understood. Cassatt commanded and manipulated strains of old master and contemporary painting to express her female subjectivity through a brilliantly modern oeuvre on par with those of the most revered Impressionists. However, mishandled by the Parisian art establishment during her lifetime, and later by art historians and curators, she became known almost exclusively as a sentimentalizing painter of mothers and children. How did this happen to the most aspiring, revolutionary female artist of…

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