Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family December 19, 2008

This exhibition explores the theme of friendship in Mary Cassatt's art, and focuses in particular on the artist's relationships with artists and collectors including Edgar Degas, Louisine Havemeyer, and Electra Havemeyer Webb. The exhibition builds around the theme of friendship and family with loans of paintings, prints, and pastels which explore specific friendships that influenced Cassatt's career and illuminate how the subject of friendship permeates the painter's art.