"Finding Aid to the Mary Cassatt letters, 1882-1926, at the Smithsonian Archives of Art"

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“..crushed by the strength of this Art .. .I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us.. ..how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.”

“Mary Cassatt papers - MS.013 Finding Aid - by Hoang Tran; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”

“I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”

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