The exhibit, "Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family," highlights the 50-year relationship between the artist and Louisine Elder Havemeyer, and the impact their friendship had on the American embrace of the ...

Mary Cassatt is an American impressionist known for her radical take on art with feminine subjects. The exhibit called "Mary ...

Born in 1844 to an upper-class Pittsburgh family, Cassatt spent extensive time in Europe as a child, as her parents viewed travel as an integral part of education. Her promise in drawing led her to ...

Mary Cassatt: A Life By Nancy Mowll Mathews Villard, 261 pages, $26 Mary Cassatt, ... When she was 11 the death of an older brother brought the family home to West Chester and then Philadelphia.

Mary Cassatt, Eddy Cassatt, 1875.(Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington) “What is wonderful about this painting is that is our only family portrait, and our only male portrait, by her ...

PHILADELPHIA — Prior to the 20th century, many women painters had artist fathers thrilled to welcome them into the family practice. And then there was Mary Cassatt, whose father was a stockbroker.

The Independent Mary Cassatt. Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1877–78 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. ... where her family moved after her father became rich.

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 ...

A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled, “Mary Cassatt at Work” revisits the domestic paintings and illustrations of the nation’s ...

Mary Cassatt's bold "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair," on display at the Legion of Honor, was painted during 1877–1878 with an assist by Cassatt’s friend and mentor Edgar Degas.

But, then, she remembered the Cassatt, where her young grandfather sported a vibrant tuft in the same color. And while her great-great-grandfather Lawrence's name has become relatively obscure outside ...