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Jun 13, 2012 · Commonplace, ordinary, yet captivating, Cassatt’s ability to convey these intensely private moments through an exquisite painterly technique places her as a key figure of American...
Jun 16, 2018 · Cassatt was the only American in the pivotal, nonconformist impressionist shows. She wasn’t there at the beginning, in their first show in 1874, but she joined soon enough, in 1879, and into the...
- Early Life
- Cassatt’s Education
- Return to Europe
- Joining Degas and The Impressionists
- Cassatt’s Family and Work
- Cassatt’s Influence in The USA
- Inspiration and Style
- Late Life
Mary Stevenson Cassattwas born on 22 May 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, into a very wealthy family. Her father, Robert, was a successful stockbroker and land speculator, and her mother, Katherine, came from a banking family. Mary was one of seven children and spent five years of her childhood in Europe along with her brother. During that ti...
From childhood, Cassatt showed interest in painting. Her family disagreed with her wish to become a professional artist. Despite that, she began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia at the age of 15. At that time women were studying painting because that was a nice skill for a woman to have. Cassatt, instea...
With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Cassatt returned to the United States in 1870. Her father refused to pay for her art supplies. She tried to make an independent living by exhibiting her works but was unsuccessful. She also had problems with a lack of artwork to study while staying in America. Due to these obstacles, Cassatt considered ...
Cassatt continued to express criticism of the politics and prevailing conventional taste of the Salon. Also, the neglect of women’s work was bothering her. She realized that only artists that had connections to the jury were being accepted. In 1877, both her entries were rejected, and for the first time in seven years, she had no work in the Salon....
Cassatt’s parents joined her in Paris in 1877. She and her sister valued their company as none of them were married. Cassatt decided early in life that marriage wouldn’t be compatible with her career. Lydia, who was often sitting for her sister, suffered from recurrent bouts of illness. She died in 1882 and leaving Cassatt temporarily unable to wor...
In 1886, Cassatt provided two paintings for the first Impressionist exhibition in the United States, organized by art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. She also served as an advisor to several major art collectors and stipulated that they eventually donate their purchases to American art museums. For example, her friend Louisine Elder, who married Harry Hav...
Mary Cassatt’s signature subjects were portraits of women and portrayals of mothers and children caught in everyday moments. She painted with bright colors and solid and precise drawings. The portraits are filled with tenderness but are unsentimental. Some of these works depict her own friends. Later, she used professional models in compositions th...
Mary Cassatt’s brother, Alexander Cassatt, (president of the Pennsylvania Railroad) died in 1906. It shook her greatly. However, she continued to produce artwork. An increasing sentimentality appeared in her work of the 1900s. Her work was popular with the public and the critics, but she was no longer breaking new ground. Cassatt was hostile to new...
Apr 29, 2024 · The Impressionist exhibitions gave women—largely excluded from official contexts—the opportunity to show their work to a public audience, and the American artist Mary Cassatt took full ...
4 days ago · June 11, 2024. Maternal Caress, Mary Cassatt, 1896 Philadelphia Museum of Art. Historically, the subjects of Mary Cassatt ’s Impressionist paintings—women and children who sit in gardens ...
One of the founding members, Berthe Morisot, was represented in the show with just two paintings out of a total of 85 works on view. More egregiously, and why I was so incensed, the work of Mary Cassatt – the only American in the group and one of its most active and intellectually, committed members – appeared only once.
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May 22, 2024 · For all of her boldness as the only American to be a member of the French Impressionists, Mary Cassatt is often typecast as a painter of (dull) domestic scenes.
