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The Child's Bath
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Oh, I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work. . . . it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor . . . there would be months when we could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together and again he would . . . say something nice about me, or come to see me himself.—Mary Cassatt1(p109)
In April 1915, the "Suffrage Loan Exhibition of Old Masters and Works by Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt" opened at the Knoedler Galleries in New York. Cassatt (1844-1926) believed women were innately humanitarian and that their views should be represented through voting, particularly at a time of war. The irony amused her, too, that Degas (1834-1917), who sometimes made sexist comments about feminists, would be linked to a feminist cause.2(p303) However, the New York exhibit did not include paintings she had given to her own family members. Cassatt . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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