Reclaiming Mary Cassatt: putting overlooked American artist back at heart of impressionism
A Guardian feature reports that a new Musée d'Orsay exhibition of 80 works, letters, and a colourised reconstruction of her lost mural Modern Woman aims to restore Mary Cassatt, Degas's American friend and collaborator, to her place at the heart of French impressionism after a century of being overlooked there. Curators attribute her neglect to her being a foreign woman whose paintings went mostly to US collectors.
