1. What are the chief characteristics of the artistic movement called impressionism? If you live near a museum that displays original impressionistic paintings, you might want to go there to study similarities and differences between the works of various artists.

2. Georgia O'Keeffe is another well known American woman artist, somewhat more recent than Mary Cassatt.

Find reproductions of some of O'Keeffe's paintings and study them carefully.

What do you think Cassatt would have thought of them? Would she have considered them "dreadful paintings"?

3. Find some reproductions of works by Pablo Picasso and study them carefully. Why do you think Cassatt disapproved of his art?

4. Find some reproductions of works by Edgar Degas and compare them with Cassatt's work. How are they similar?

How are they different?

5. Read some of Cassatt's letters published in Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters, edited by...