Museum reveals Degas, Cassatt’s interaction in art

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Works by Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt usually reside in separate French and American wings of an art museum, and rarely ever do their paintings hang together.

Now the National Gallery of Art is studying how these impressionists influenced each other while working in Paris and how Cassatt introduced Degas to American audiences. A new show “Degas/Cassatt” opens Sunday as the first major exhibition to explore their relationship.

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