Great Women Artists present Mary Cassatt. children and naturalism are the hallmarks of her work during the 1880′s and 1890′s. Cassatt absorbed from her Impressionist colleagues Caillebotte, Degas, and Renoir, a well as her study of Japanese prints, the modern idean that the background of a painting might be as significant as the foregroud. Her paintings depict a world of her own creation, one that adults can fully understand only by recapturing their childhood persona. 45 min.