这本精美的书由一位杰出的卡萨特学者编辑，汇集了60多件涵盖卡萨特整个职业生涯的重要作品。书中包括卡萨特通过所有媒介（油画颜料，粉彩，素描和版画）创作的作品，以及众多文献资料，这些作品和资料一起完整地呈现了一位在巴黎活跃的美国画家，卡萨特。

其中一些作品是众所周知的，例如《坐在蓝色扶手椅上的小女孩》（1878年）和《沐浴的女人》（1890-91年）。其他作品则来自私人收藏，很少被复制（如果有的话）。于是有了这本探讨卡萨特的全新作品，本书重申了她对法国印象派和后印象派的重要性，赞扬了她在以男性为主导的法国和美国艺术界所展示出来的韧性，并展示了她调和生活和工作的不同领域的能力。

A beautifully illustrated rediscovery of a distinguished American artist

Acclaimed and beloved for her paintings of women and children in intimate, informal settings, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was the only American artist to exhibit with the French Impressionists in Paris.   Cassatt celebrated women in an age of rapid female advancement, and she explained her affinity for depicting children, saying they are “natural and truthful,” two of the qualities that her generation of artists was energetically pursuing.   This beautiful book, edited by a preeminent Cassatt scholar, brings together more than sixty important works that span the entirety of Cassatt’s career.   Included here are works across all media in which Cassatt worked—oils, pastels, drawings, and prints—as well as numerous documentary sources that combine to convey a full and nuanced account of Cassatt as an American artist in Paris.

Some of these works, such as Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) and Woman Bathing (1890–91) are familiar; others are from private collections and have been reproduced rarely, if ever.   The result is a fresh look at Cassatt that reaffirms her importance to French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, celebrates her resilience in the male-dominated worlds of French and American art, and demonstrates her ability to reconcile the different realms in which she lived and worked.