Visit the MFAH over Labor Day Weekend
The entire MFAH campus is open regular hours this Saturday and Sunday.
On Monday, September 6, the museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
and Cafe Express is open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Strongly encouraged by her dear friend Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt was one of only two women and the only American to join the Impressionists. She focused on the domestic world of women and children, rendering them in a straightforward manner free from sentimentality. Here, the radical composition and the variety of brush strokes—from smooth and exacting to sketchy and dynamic—enhance both the intimacy and the drama of an everyday scene.
