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The Boating Party is an oil painting by American artist Mary Cassatt created in 1893. It is also known under the titles La partie en bateau; La barque; Les canotiers; and En canot.[1] Measuring nearly three by four feet, it is Cassatt’s largest and most ambitious painting. [1][2] It has been in the Chester Dale Collection of the National ...
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (or Lydia in a Loge) is an 1879 painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the painting in 1978 from the bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright. [1] The style in which it was painted and the depiction of shifting light and color was influenced by Impressionism. [1]
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/ k ə ˈ s æ t /; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) [1] was an American painter and printmaker. [2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
Dimensions. 89.7 cm × 130.5 cm (35.3 in × 51.4 in) Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. A Woman and a Girl Driving is an oil-on-canvas painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, painted in 1881. It emphasizes the theme of female autonomy in a male dominated society. [1] Lydia Cassatt, the artist's sister, is shown holding ...
The last time there was a show in America dedicated to Mary Cassatt, the year was 1999. Given her stature as a grande dame of Impressionism and one of the very few women to have reached a level of ...
World's Columbian Exposition. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool ...
Dimensions. 100.3 cm × 66.1 cm (39.5 in × 26 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. The Child's Bath (or The Bath) is an 1893 oil painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. The painting continues her interest in depicting bathing and motherhood, but it is distinct in its angle of vision. Both the subject matter and the overhead ...
Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath, 1891–92 Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942. The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Grant Wood's American Gothic, and Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath. The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and ...