“This is an island, composed of Mary and me, her brush and my gloves, my aching and her gaze. On her canvas, I become a healthy woman in blue and white. Sun and brush heal me, brush and sun, and French birds in a French garden.”
– From Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
‘Lydia Reading on a Divan’ by Mary Cassatt (1880-1881)
