In this series, Lagniappe presents works from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Every second Sunday in May, we honor motherhood with flower bouquets, ...

America’s greatest woman painter, Mary Cassatt, a spinster famed for her pictures of mothers and children, got her first big U.S. show last week, 15 years after she died in France. Assembled from ...

During her lifetime and since her death in 1926, the painter, printer, and pastels virtuoso has often been reduced to single aspects of her life and work. Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a ...

As I stepped into the gallery at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, I found myself drawn into a world both familiar and elusive, mirroring the layers beneath Mary Cassatt’s brushstrokes that are ...