matthewsgallery reblogged
Happy birthday to Mary Cassatt. As a woman, Cassatt was ineligible for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts. Perhaps this is why her taste in art was much more adventurous than that of any other young American expatriate artist. “A Woman and a Girl Driving,” 1881, by Mary Cassatt
Happy 171st bday, Cassatt!
“I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.”
More trailblazing women artists here.
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