Artist: Mary Cassatt (1845 - 1926)
Nationality: American
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Mary Cassatt born into an affluent Philadelphia family. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art from 1861 to 1864 before moving to Europe to continue her training. She finally settled in Paris where she was a student of Edgar Degas who taught her the concepts of Impressionism. Her domestic mother and child portraits were often done in intaglio printmaking or lithography, although her pastels and oils are the considered the most advanced of all her work. An American painter and printmaker born in 1845 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, Mary Cassatt spent 5 years as a child in Paris. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1865-1866) she returned to paint in Italy. She exhibited with the Impressionists between 1877-1886. Cassatt admired the Realist Courbet and the Impressionist Manet but was mainly influenced by her friend Degas, who also represented her in his own scenes. As a wealthy expatriate, she had the means to devote herself to her art and used her domestic life as subject matter. She painted fashionable women who were conversing, having tea, and at outings with friends and their children. Her pictures are characterized by a spontaneity and freshness of vision which prevails in the asymmetrical and unposed figures of her oil paintings. Her drawings and prints show a personal mastery of linearism and perspective that owed much to Degas and Oriental Art. She died in 1926 in France.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Mary Cassatt, Mrs. Robert S. Cassatt, the Artist"s Mother (Katherine Kelso Johnston Cassatt), circa 1889
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Mary Cassatt - Alexander J. Cassatt c. 1880 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Mary Cassatt, Head of a Woman, circa 1885
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Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing (La Toilette), 1891
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Mary Cassatt, Mlle. Margot without her hat, circa 1894
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Mary Cassatt, Bill Lying on his Mother"s Lap, circa 1889
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Woman Bathing, 1890-91 Etched by Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)Drypoint and aquatint, printed in
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Mary Cassatt, Nurse and Baby Bill, No. 2, circa 1889
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Mary Cassatt, Jeanette wearing a bonnet (No. 2), circa 1904
Museum of Fine Arts -
Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American, 1844-1926 Ellen Mary in a White Coat about 1896 Oil on
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Mary Cassatt - Buste d'une femme en corsage black (Portrait of Katherine Cassatt) 1905 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Mary Cassatt - Miss Mary Ellison c. 1880 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Edgar Degas Title: Mary Cassatt at the Louvre Date: 1879 - 1880 Medium: etching
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: The Barefooted Child Date: 1896 - 1897 Medium: etching with drypoint
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of the Artist, 1878 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)AmericanGouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edgar Degas, Au Louvre: MusČe des Antiques (At the Louvre: Museum of Antiquities), also known as Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879 - 1880
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Cup of Tea, ca. 1879 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)AmericanOil on canvas; 36 3/8 x 25
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Mary Cassatt - The Cup of Tea c. 1879 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: The Barefooted Child Date: about 1896 - 1897 Medium: color drypoint
Museum of Fine Arts -
Mary Stevenson Cassatt, American, 1844-1926 In the Loge 1879 Oil on canvas 81.28 x 66.04
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Mary Cassatt - The Loge 1882 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - On a Balcony 1878-79 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Mary Cassatt - The Family c. 1892 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - In the Garden 1903-1904 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - The Bath 1890-91 drypoint and aquatin The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Mary Cassatt - The Letter 1878 graphite on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - The Letter 1890-91 drypoint and aquatin The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Mary Cassatt - The Visitor n.d. etching Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College American
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Mary Cassatt - The Letter 1891 etching, drypoint an Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - In the Omnibus 1891 drypoint and aquatin Carnegie Museum of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - The Fitting 1891 drypoint, aquatint p Smith College Museum of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - Portrait of the Artist 1878 gouache on wove pape The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - Portrait of a Woman 1881-1883 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery American
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Mary Cassatt - Young Mother 1888 pastel on blue-gray The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Mary Cassatt - The Boating Party 1893-1894 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - Portrait of a Woman 1872 oil on canvas Dayton Arts Institute American
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Mary Cassatt - Nicolle and Her Mother c. 1900 pastel on paper Des Moines Art Center American
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Mary Cassatt - Woman with a Red Zinnia 1891 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Mary Cassatt - Mother and Child c. 1889 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Mary Cassatt - Woman and Child n.d. oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (26)
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Guild Hall Museum: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Celebrating the opening of the exhibition on Friday, June 16 will be a Gala Preview and Cocktail Party, 6 p.m., $275. Also on Saturday, June 17 there will be an Opening Reception between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. $5 donation (members Free) A Gallery T...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American impressionists were among the most thoroughly trained, widely traveled and cosmopolitan painters in the history of our nations art. Many artists ...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
Late 19th-century Parisian painters experimented freely with new developments in printmaking and worked closely with skillful printmakers and publishers to produce some of the ...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Tissot and the Victorian Woman
Tissot began etching in 1860 with the art form's popular revival, but then stopped after 1861 and did not etch again until 1875.  Between 1875 and 1885, Tissot produced his most significant etchings.  In 1885, Tissot began work on the Bible illust...
Baltimore Museum of Art: Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections
Presenting 56 signature paintings by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cassatt, Degas, Cézanne, and many other luminaries of 19th-century French art, Faces of ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Boston, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of Impressionism related to the culture of that city. Artists such as Daniel Garber and Maurice Prendergast carried Impress...
San Diego Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home:
Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections to suggest ways in which the American Impressionists responded to various aspects of the city and subu...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Portrait/Self Portrait: Prints and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
Dating from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century, the show features works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, and Picasso, as well as American artists such as Mary Cassatt, John James Audubon...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: From Manet to Picasso: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Prints and Drawings
Prints and drawings ranging from the time of Edouard Manet in mid-century to the early Picasso at the end of the century comprise this survey of works by some of the most well known artists of the time. Impressionists in the exhibition include Ed...
Speed Art Museum: Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Along with Mary Cassatt, Morisot was the most well-known and successful female Impressionist painter and one of the most important woman artists of the nineteenth century. She was the first woman to join the artistic circle of the Impressionists...
Tennessee State Museum: The Rau Collection: Six Centuries With The European Masters
Riggins-Ezzell said, "This is truly an all-star lineup of the European masters from several countries, representing the beginnings of European painting in the Renaissance up to the mid-20th century, including French Impressionist and Post-Impressi...
Delaware Art Museum: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 canvases by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and John Singer Sargent (1...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Orlando Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 paintings by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s. Among the ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Tea, Poetry, and Rimpa: Works From Japan
Among the works shown in Tea, Poetry, and Rimpa are painted wood Votive Plaques of the Thirty-six Immortal Poets (1698), an exceedingly rare and complete set on loan to the Museum by Dr. Luther W. Brady, Jr. The votive ...
National Academy of Design: Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003
A strength of this exhibition is the numerous self-portraits by women artists. One membership requirement of newly elected Academicians is that all must donate a portrait of themselves to the museum's permanent collection. This has provided the Ac...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
L.A. County Museum of Art: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art

A major part of LACMA's mission is to bring great art to our region, said Graham W. J. Beal, the museum's director. We are delighted to share a special selection of the National Gallery’s renowned French paintings with the people of Los Angeles....
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Picturing the Banjo
"For more than two centuries, the banjo has played an integral role in American history and culture and has inspired an eclectic array of artists," said Sarah Cash, the Corcoran's Bechhoefer Curator of American Art. "A highlight of the Corcoran...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art: First Juried Biennial: Curated by Ingrid Schaffner
Featured artists: Virginia Steele Ankney, Paul Binai, Leslie Calhoun, Marie Mawe Charpentier, Ron Donoughe, John Dorinsky, Betty Elias, John A. Fobes, L’Ox Formidable, Fran V. Galamas, Patty Gallagher, Melinda Myers Grass, Greg Hricenak, Doug Kins...
National Gallery of Art: MASTERWORKS HONORS PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY OF GIFTS TO THE NATION; INCLUDES 14 RARE DEGAS WAXES
This exhibition honors Paul Mellon, whose generosity and service to the nation are unsurpassed, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. The full breadth of Mr. Mellons gifts ...
Terra Museum of American Art: The People Work: American Perspectives 1840-1940
"By exploring diverse representations from the Terra Foundation for the Arts collection and several key works on loan, The People Work examines a variety of human activities investigating labor. The exhibition questions common assumptions and atti...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: Treasures to Go!
`Storing treasures that attract more than half a million visitors each year was not an option the staff wanted to consider,` said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Instead, in January the museum is laun...
Walter Anderson Museum of Art: Daring From Within: The Art of American Women from the Sellars Collection
A sheltered life can be a daring life . . . for all serious daring starts from within. These words closed Eudora Welty's biographical sketch, One Writer's Beginnings, which she delivered at Harvard University in 1983. Welty came from a shel...
Phoenix Art Museum: All 73 sculptures by Edgar Degas
Featured among Degas’s celebrated dancers, bathers and horses in Degas in Bronze is the famed Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. This single sculpture, worked on by Degas for two years, may be the most historically important sculpture in French art of...
San Diego Museum of Art: Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures
The collection of 73 sculptures in the show is one of only four complete sets of Degas bronzes, which were cast shortly after the artist’s death, in existence. They come from the Museu de Arte de Săo Paulo, Brazil, and their presentation is organi...

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