Art: Spinster Mary

America's greatest woman painter, Mary Cassatt, a spinster famed for her pictures of mothers and children, got her first big U.S. show last week, 15 years after she died in France.

Assembled from museums and private collections all over the U.S. and installed in the Baltimore Museum by the No. 1 Cassatt expert, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, the show contained 156 of Mary Cassatt's finest oils, pastels, dry points, color prints and drawings, surrounded with side shows of letters, photographs and paintings by such famed Cassatt contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Auguste...

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