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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 ]
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 ...
“I mean, Cézanne is wonderful, but there have been exhibitions of his rocks,” says Jennifer Thompson, a curator of “Mary Cassatt at Work,” the first U.S. survey of the artist in 25 years ...
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 ...
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]
Description and interpretation. The work depicts a mother engaged in the act of sewing while seated in front of a window. A young child in a white dress leans on her mother's lap while gazing out of the picture plane toward the viewer. The woman wears a striped dress covered by a green apron that mirrors the greens in the grass outside the window.
Exhibitions focused on a single artist or theme and represented a range of artistic styles and movements. Notable exhibitions. The Wyeths: Three Generations of American Art (November 10, 2011 – February 12, 2012) Mary Cassatt in Paris: Prints and Drawings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection (September 26, 2012 – January 20, 2013)