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Signature. Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/ kəˈsæt /; 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.
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 ...
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 reins of the family's carriage alongside Odile Fèvre, the niece of Edgar Degas , and a servant to ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
In the Loge was one of Cassatt's first pieces to be presented in the United States, when it was exhibited in Boston in 1878. [5] The work remained in the possession of the artist's family until 1893 or 1894, when Cassatt sold it to Martin, Camentron, and Company in Paris. [5] The painting entered the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1910. [5]