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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 ...
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 ...
In 1890, Cassatt had visited the great Japanese Print exhibition at the École de Beaux-arts in Paris. [ 8 ] [ 13 ] Mary Cassatt owned Japanese prints by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The exhibition at Durand-Ruel of Japanese art proved the most important influence on Cassatt. [ 16 ]
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]
Marie Bracquemond (née Quivoron; 1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), and Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883). Bracquemond studied drawing as a child and began showing her work at the ...
The Met object ID: 10401. [edit on Wikidata] Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. The painting depicts a mother and her child in front of a mirror. The painting provides a glimpse of the domestic life of a mother and her child, evoking religious iconography from the ...
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 ...