New York Art Tours continues to celebrate the U.S.’s 250th anniversary this week in the Met Museum’s American galleries with this painting by 19th century American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, who befriended Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and other iconic artists while advising American collectors on the Paris art scene. ‘Young Mother Sewing’ features two paid models who lived near Cassatt’s country home enacting a scene of casual familiarity between mother and child. Though she never married or had children, Cassatt was close to her nieces and nephews and created images of tenderness and love that resonate today. (On view in gallery 768 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
