American-born painter Mary Cassatt grew up in Pennsylvania but spent the better part of her life and career in France, yet that did not prevent her from gaining a preeminent position among artists in the United States. At the height of her career, she focused almost exclusively on depictions of mothers and children, a subject that became her signature theme. By the outbreak of World War I, Cassatt had to give up painting entirely due to failing eyesight,...

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Brief biographies of six prominent American women artists: Mary Cassatt, Grandma Moses, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, and Suzanne Jackson.