Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

"Mary Cassatt's paintings are lush and melancholy, and it is Chessman's aching joy to reveal the keen sadness that underlies five portraits of Lyddy....LYDIA CASSATT READING THE MORNING PAPER is sometimes awkward in its exposition but most often entrancing, particularly as it gathers momentum and urgency....[L]ike Cassatt's art, its odd angles and delicate, inevitable details--some just out of our vision--make themselves felt long after one has finished this fine period piece.Harriet Scott Chessman is the author of 'Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper' with ISBN 9780786240920 and ISBN 078624092X.