Artist
Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionism painter. 172 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense. She also played an important role in introducing Impressionism to American collectors, notably through her friendship with the Havemeyer family.
Works by Mary Cassatt
Woman with a Sunflower
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf
Five O'Clock Tea
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
The Loge
The Cup of Tea
Portrait of a Young Girl
Young Mother Sewing
Lady at the Tea Table
The Boating Party
Lilacs in a Window
Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin)
Children Playing on the Beach
Woman with a Red Zinnia (Revery)
Child in a Straw Hat
Girl Arranging Her Hair
Portrait of a Lady
Young Girl at a Window
Woman with a Fan
Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt)
The Child's Bath
Denise at Her Dressing Table
Collections represented
Moments involving Mary Cassatt
- Eighth (and Last) Impressionist Exhibition · 1886 Impressionism's group identity dissolved at the very moment its successor movement stepped on stage, the torch passing visible in a single room.
- Women Artists of Europe Opens at the Jeu de Paume · 1937 It became a rare prewar museum-scale statement of women's international artistic production.
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