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"There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one."
-Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (b. Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1844 - d. Le Mesnil-Theribus, France, June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born into a wealthy family of French descent in Allegheny (now part of Pennsylvnia's Pittsburgh, USA.)
She studied in Spain, Italy, and Holland, and lived much of her adult life in France, settling in Paris in 1868. There, she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the impressionists.
Mary Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children of which her popular, colourful pictures show the influence of Japanese prints, for example The Bath 1892, and a series of drypoint colour prints, as in The Tramway (1891, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
She also painted domestic scenes, as in Lady at the Tea Table (1885, Metropolitan Museum in New York.)
By 1914, she had to stop working as her eyesight began to fail.
Cassatt excelled in etching and pastel. She was considered as one of the grand dames of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Marie Bracquemonde.
Resources:
Mary Cassatt. www.artsy.net. Provided by Jenna P. from Artsy. / July 21, 2017
"Mary Stevenson Cassatt." Bio. A and E Television Networks, 2014. Web. Accessed May 22, 2016.
"There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one."
-Mary Cassatt
American Impressionist Painter
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (b. Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1844 - d. Le Mesnil-Theribus, France, June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born into a wealthy family of French descent in Allegheny (now part of Pennsylvnia's Pittsburgh, USA.)
She studied in Spain, Italy, and Holland, and lived much of her adult life in France, settling in Paris in 1868. There, she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the impressionists.
Mary Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children of which her popular, colourful pictures show the influence of Japanese prints, for example The Bath 1892, and a series of drypoint colour prints, as in The Tramway (1891, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
She also painted domestic scenes, as in Lady at the Tea Table (1885, Metropolitan Museum in New York.)
By 1914, she had to stop working as her eyesight began to fail.
Cassatt excelled in etching and pastel. She was considered as one of the grand dames of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Marie Bracquemonde.
Resources:
Mary Cassatt. www.artsy.net. Provided by Jenna P. from Artsy. / July 21, 2017
"Mary Stevenson Cassatt." Bio. A and E Television Networks, 2014. Web. Accessed May 22, 2016.
Image Credit:
Mary Cassatt. Self-Portrait, c. 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. en.wikipedia.org. Public Domain.
Mary Cassatt. Self-Portrait, c. 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. en.wikipedia.org. Public Domain.
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