Reclaiming Mary Cassatt: putting overlooked American artist back at heart of impressionism

New exhibition restores painter’s place as leading figure in French movement that revolutionised artAs a painter, friend, and collaborator of Edgar Degas, who exhibited with impressionist artists including Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the 19th-century movement that emerged in France and revolutionised art.She was also a woman and foreign – “American, American through…