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Mary Cassatt

ART / Artist Datebook

"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.