During the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which burned through thousands of buildings in the city—including the jewelry store where Cassatt’s paintings had been put on display. She was unharmed, but her artworks were destroyed.
Though Cassatt never married or had a family of her own she was well known for her tender, yet unsentimental portraits of mothers and their children.
Cassatt was the only American artist officially associated with the Impressionists in Paris
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