She was a great practical support to the movement
as a whole.
Her own works, were very favourably received there.
She acquired an interest of the pictural qualities of
everyday life,
with a special emphasis on the mother and child theme in
the 1890s Motherhood was Cassatt's most frequent
subject.(The Bath, 1891.
Her earlier works were marked by a certain gentle, golden
lighting, but by the 1890s, became more emphatic, her
colors clearer and more boldly defined.
She lived in France all her life.
She is well represented in public and private galleries in
the United States.
Her best-known pictures include several versions of Mother
and Child Lady at the Tea-Table Modern Women, a mural
painted for the Women's Building of the Chicago exposition;
and a portrait of the artist's mother.
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