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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.
[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] Cassatt's depiction of the woman and child was also inspired by Antonio da Correggio, who used a soft, natural style to depict his Madonna and Child paintings ...
Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, 1890, oil on canvas 64.26 x 89.66 cm, private collection. The mother-child relationship was a common theme among French artists in 1890 and popularized through several influential artists at the time. [ 6 ]
New Britain Museum of American Art: New Britain, Connecticut The Letter: 1891: 13 5/8 in x 9 in: Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago The Child's Bath: 1893: 39 1/2 in × 26 in: 1910.2: Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Baby Reaching for an Apple: 1893: 39 in x 25 1/2 in: Mrs. Blaine Durham: Hume, VA The Boating Party: 1893: 35 1/2 in × 46 1/8 in ...
Woman with a Sunflower is a 1905 oil painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC since 1963. [1] Woman with a Sunflower was among many paintings by Cassatt which were involved in a 1915 exhibition, which raised money for the suffrage campaign.
Griselda Pollock declares the painting one of the most radical images of childhood of the time. [16] Germaine Greer calls it Cassatt's first real stunner: "As an icon of the awfulness of being at once controlled by adults and ignored by them, this bold work could hardly be bettered", [17] a view echoed by Ben Pollitt in his description of the painting as capturing the huffing and puffing ...
Mary Cassatt created the oil painting in 1900. It was purchased in Paris from Durand-Ruel by Louisine Havemeyer in 1901. [2] Havemeyer became a widow in 1907 and she devoted her time to the suffrage movement. In 1912 she lent her artistic collection including this painting to Knoedler's Gallery in New York to raise money for the cause. [3]
Lilacs in a Window is a painting by the American painter, printmaker, pastelist, and connoisseur Mary Cassatt which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [ 1 ] It is one of the few still-lifes she executed and was originally owned by the Parisian art collector Moyse Dreyfus.