Mary Cassatt: Impressionist From Philadelphia
This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.
- Year: 1977
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- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: woman director, female painter
- Director: Perry Miller Adato
- Cast: Leora Dana, Guy Sorel, Mary Jane Higby, William Redfield