I’m the author of The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art (October 2025). Escape into Art is a place you’ll find paintings and miscellanea about American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her circle of artist friends, along with delicious bites from Paris during La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Age.

She worked more than a decade as an artist—as a copyist at the Louvre, as a student of the finest artists in Europe, as a portrait painter to make ends meet, and finally ...