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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 ...
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 ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Tea, also referred to as Five O’Clock Tea, [1] is an oil-on-canvas painting of two women having tea by the American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. [2] The role of gender in the painting has been the subject of differing interpretations among art historians. Griselda Pollock describes the confined interior ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wichita Art Museum: Kansas Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist's Mother: 1889: 38 in x 27 in: 1979.35: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: San Francisco Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet: 1890: 25 9/16 x 20 1/2 in: x1953-119: Princeton University Art Museum: Princeton, New Jersey: Baby's First Caress: 1891: 30 in x 24 in: New Britain ...
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]