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Saturday Quote

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

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‘Lydia Reading on a Divan’ by Mary Cassatt (1880-1881)