The Artistic Friendship of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
(WorldNews Entertainment)

The American expatriate painter Mary Cassatt and the French artist Edgar Degas formed a long, if tumultuous, artistic relationship and friendship in the late 19 century that lasted for decades. The two admired each other`s work during the early 1870s, years before they met. In 1877, Degas visited Cassatt in her studio-possibly their first official meeting-to personally invite her to exhibit with the Impressionists, bringing her into the fold of the Parisian avant-garde. Over the course of their careers, they supported and challenged each other artistically, even collaborating occasionally. Neither Degas nor Cassatt ever married, which led to speculation about the nature of their...