Mary Cassatt: ; The Color Prints

First edition. With a foreword by the Director of the Williams College Museum of Art, who produced this exhibition. Contains an appendix, bibliography, index, a list of lenders to the exhibition, and photography credits. Laid-in is a small card of errata, as well as a page with the print of "Mother's Kiss" on it, torn out of a magazine. Contains many color and black-and-white prints of Cassatt's works. Minor wear. 207 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..

Leading Cassatt expert Mathews ( Mary Cassatt , LJ 6/15/87) continues her exemplary scholarship in conjunction with Shapiro, a specialist in prints and also a writer on Cassatt. Cassatt was trained as a painter, but here the authors explore her work as a printmaker possessing a virtuosity unmatched by that of her Impressionist contemporaries, who were influenced by her print oeuvre . In the prints Mathews finds confirmation of the thesis that Cassatt passed from Impressionism to "a quieter, more classic art." Boasting the completeness of a catalogue raisonne, this sumptuous work surely will remain the leading resource for decades to come. Highly recommended.
- Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
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