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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.
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]
[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Under Edgar Degas's mentorship, Cassatt had begun to exhibit with the Impressionists between the years of 1877 and 1881. [3] Many of her works from this period featured independent women. [3] Cassatt portrayed her family's upper bourgeois lifestyle in a handful of her paintings, particularly those featured in the Impressionist Exhibition of 1881.
Mary Cassatt: Woman's Building: Modern Woman: Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science Young Girls Pursuing Fame Arts, Music, Dancing: Murals 1893 Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge (detail): The 3-part mural was 14 ft (4.3 m) tall and 58 ft (17.7 m) long. Woman's Building (Gallery of Honor): The Young Mother [40] [36]: 57 Pastel 1888