Jerry Weiss on Mary Cassatt

Read about how Mary Cassatt painted an ungainly subject as a retort to Edgar Degas in “A Matter of Style” by Jerry Weiss in the July/August issue of The Artist’s Magazine. So impressed was Degas by Cassatt’s painting, he traded a pastel for it and displayed it in his home thereafter.

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Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886. Oil on canvas, 75.1 x 62.5 cm. Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.97. Collection of the National Gallery of Art.