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Mary Stevenson Cassatt fue una pintora y grabadora estadounidense. Aunque nacida en Pensilvania, pasó gran parte de su vida adulta en Francia, donde forjó amistad con Edgar Degas y se incorporó al movimiento impresionista. Cassatt pintó, principalmente, imágenes representando la vida social y privada de las mujeres, con especial énfasis en los lazos entre ellas y sus hijos.

Mary Cassatt fue descrita por Gustave Geffroy como una de «las tres grandes damas» del impresionismo junto a Marie Bracquemond y Berthe Morisot.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 22. mayo 1844 – 14. junio 1926
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“I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where.”

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Quote from her letter of July, 1871; as quoted in her biography online at https://www.marycassatt.org/biography.html

“I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his [Degas'] art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”

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Quote, c. 1875; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 114 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
Cassatt admired Edgar Degas, whose pastels had made a powerful impression on her when she encountered them in an art dealer's window in Paris, 1875

“O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again.”

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quoted by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 76 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3
Quote, c. 1871 - shortly after the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned Mary Cassatt to paint two copies of paintings by Correggio in Parma, Italy

“.. crushed by the strength of this Art [the old Egyptian art]... I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us.... how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.”

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Quote of Cassatt, after her trip to Egypt, 1910; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 291 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1

“.. we [the Impressionists ] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.”

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Quote c. 1879; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Villard Books, New York, 1994, p. 118 - ISBN 978-0-394-58497-3