Mary Cassatt: A Biography of the Great American Painter by Nancy Hale

Mary Cassatt:  A Biography of the Great American Painter by Nancy Hale is a 333-page hardcover published by Doubleday & Company, 1975.  The dust jacket is covered in protective plastic.  Inside, the cloth bound hardcover has gilt lettering bright on red background on spine, there there is a gift inscription written, in pen, on the front endpaper and foxing present to the top outside page edges.  Otherwise, the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Book Summary "It's true," said Degas, staring at the painting.  "There is someone who feels as I do."  The someone was the only American painter ever to be accepted into the French Impressionist group.  Moreover, the someone was a woman, succeeding on her own terms in a world and an age that belonged to men.  The someone was Mary Cassatt; this is her story. Nancy Hale, herself the daughter of painters, combines the approach of the biographer with the imagination of the novelist to reveal Mary Cassatt more fully than has ever been done bef