This is a biography of the great American painter by Nancy Hale.-the only American painter ever to be accepted into the French Impressionist group.Nancy Hale, daughter of painters, combines the approach of the biographer with the imagination of the novelist to reveal Mary Cassatt more fully than has ever been done before.-The struggle-degas: " I will not admit that a woman can draw that well".-critics at the 1893 Chicago World's fair called her mural "erratic" and "ridiculous"-in her last years there was bitterness....

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