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Mary Cassatt is an American impressionist known for her radical take on art with feminine subjects. The exhibit called "Mary ...
PHILADELPHIA — “Mary Cassatt at Work” is a large and mostly satisfying exhibition devoted to the career of the great American artist beloved for her sensitive and often sentimental views of ...
F or years, I had mixed feelings about Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). After seeing the new survey of her career at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris, I’m happy to say I was too hard on her ...
The year is 1877. The Parisian group of artists who call themselves the Impressionists are displaying their works in an exhibit known as the “Salon of Rejects.” One such “reject,” Mary ...
Cassatt may be rightly celebrated as the genius of female domesticity, but, as an upcoming show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art underscores, her entire career was a feminist endeavor. Mary Cassatt, ...
A May exhibit at the National Gallery of Art will explore the relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, as new evidence suggests a bond of mutual admiration and influence, rather than ...
NEW YORK – The New York Public Library's archive is so massive that some of the material has never been seen except on request. Beginning Friday, the library presents a selection of those hidden ...
That would be Mary Cassatt, the 29-year-old Pennsylvania-born artist. She was the first American invited to exhibit with the Impressionists and one of the few women to gain that distinction.
Mary Cassatt: A Life. By Nancy Mowll Mathews. Villard, 261 pages, $26. Mary Cassatt, perhaps the most successful of all women artists, was apparently unencumbered by love affairs or children.
In 1966, four years prior to the last large Cassatt retrospective, former Art Institute curator Frederick Sweet wrote a biography called “Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania.” ...
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled, “Mary Cassatt at Work” revisits the domestic paintings and illustrations of the nation’s ...
Painters Mary Cassatt and Helen McNicoll belonged to different generations and apparently never met, but “Cassatt-McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds,” a new exhibition opening on May 31 ...