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Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia (1977)
Directed by Perry Miller Adato
Overview
This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. ‘Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia’ is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.
Length 30 minutes