Discover an intimate exhibition of works by Mary Cassatt, an impressionist master with an independent spirit. Cassatt, who lived in France for most of her life, was the only American member of the impressionists—and one of only three women.

This exhibition marks 100 years since Cassatt's death with bold iconic works and rarely seen treasures, largely drawn from our rich holdings of her work. They show an artist shaped by tradition yet radically modern.

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Mark Rothko depicted the world as he experienced it—not exactly as it appeared. As a young artist, he made works on canvas and paper that did not perfectly represent reality, but still featured recognizable imagery: landscapes, city scenes, bathers, and people he knew.

By his 40s, Rothko had settled on the format for which he is best known today: soft-edged rectangles arranged vertically against a monochrome (single-color) background. For Rothko, these abstract paintings were about nothing less than the very nature of human experience. “I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on,” he said. “And the fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate those basic human emotions.”

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