Mary Morton on Mary Cassatt

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Today on the GWA podcast is curator Mary Morton on the extraordinary painter Mary Cassatt! Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she has organised exhibitions on the Impressionist movement, to shows centring on Corot, Cézanne and Gaugin. She has published extensively and in 2018 was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by France's Ministry of Culture. But the reason we are speaking with her today is because this November she will publish “Cassatt Reconsidered”, which looks at the life and work of the revolutionary artist Mary Cassatt, and how she was mishandled by the Parisian art…