WASHINGTON, D.C.- The exhibition The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921 has just opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, on view until August 27, 2002. This exhibition features turn-of-the-century art featuring images of women by Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent and Edmund Tarbell. ”All of the works in this exhibition depict women embodying spirituality and serenity, seemingly oblivious to the commercialism and materialism around them," notes Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran. "These images reveal Gilded Age artists’ desire to maintain traditional depictions rather than to create new roles for women."