Chapter 1. Background and Early Education (1844–1865)

Mathews, Nancy Mowll

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Even though Mary Cassatt left her homeland for Paris, even though she chose to spend her days in the bohemian world of painters and models, dealers and collectors, there remained in her the sturdy thread of her ancestry...

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Nancy Mowll Mathews

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-28

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00343.1

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23327

Chapter subject tags:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsWomen artists--United States--19th centuryPainting, American--19th centuryArt--Study and teaching--United States--19th centuryCassatt, Mary, 1844-1926

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