Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia

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.

Cast

Leora Dana

Mary Cassatt

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Guy Sorel

Edgar Degas

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Mary Jane Higby

Women's Voices (voice)

William Redfield

Men's Voices (voice)