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The Laguna Beach Art Colony housed many artists from this movement’s “California” branch. An artist from this movement founded the Parsons (10[1])School of Design and succeeded John Henry Twachtman as leader of (10[1])a group of its artists. (10[1])Another artist from this movement made similar portraits of a sister and bespectacled mother, both wearing white dresses and reading newspapers. The “Ten American Artists” of this movement included the artist of The Avenue in the Rain, which shows a row of American flags. Another member of this movement painted elegant women in opera houses “at the loge.” It (10[2])included Childe Hassam (“HASS-um”) and an artist who painted a seated woman in a striped dress washing her baby’s feet in The Child’s Bath. For 10 points, Mary Cassatt was part of what art movement? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Impressionism [accept California Impressionism or American Impressionism; accept The Ten or Ten American Artists until “Ten” is read; accept plein-air painting] (The second clue refers to William Meritt Chase.)
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