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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.
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 ]
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 ...
Ellen Mary Cassatt In A White Coat: 1896: 32 in x 24 in: private collection: Breakfast in Bed: 1897: 25 5/8 in × 29 in: Huntington Library: San Marino, California Under the Horse Chestnut Tree: 1898: 19 x 15 in: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (this original), Library of Congress: Houston and Washington D.C. Gardner and Ellen: 1899: 25 in × 18 3 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
In The Loge, also known as At The Opera, is an 1878 Impressionist painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. The oil-on-canvas painting is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which also holds a preliminary drawing for the work. [1] The painting displays a bourgeois woman at the opera house looking through her opera glasses, while a ...