Mary Cassatt | |
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 Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella, 1913. Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed." | |
| Born | Mary Stevenson Cassatt May 22, 1844 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 1926 (aged 82) near Paris, France |
| Education | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Couture |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Impressionism |
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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/kəˈsæt/; 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. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.[3] In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense.[4]
- ^ "Mary Cassatt Self-Portrait". National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
- ^ Solomon, Deborah (May 16, 2024). "Mary Cassatt's Women Didn't Sit Pretty - The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
- ^ Geffroy, Gustave (1894), "Histoire de l'Impressionnisme", La Vie Artistique: 268.
- ^ Moffett, Charles S. (1986). The New Painting: Impressionism 1874–1886. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. pp. 276. ISBN 0-88401-047-3.