Barbara Stern Shapiro

I worked for the print curator of a museum of modern art in Texas for a while. I catalogued, re-matted and re-framed a large part of the museum's very fine and extensive print collection, which included very fine impressions of "the Ten," the ten color dry-point/aquatints that she produced in 1890-91 (I think). They are wonderful objects to see up close, unframed, and matting and framing them was one of the highlights of my too-brief time as a print cur's assistant. I don't collect catalogues raisonne, I just purchased this book because I've always been so fond of "the Ten," and because even in reproduction, you can spend a lot of time gazing at them and appreciating Cassatt's mastery, and that of her printer, M. LeRoy.… (más)