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Mary Cassatt
- About Mary Cassatt
- (1844-1926, American) "An Impressionist painter, Mary Cassatt is best known for her mother and child
compositions. Born in 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, she
was recognized by the turn of the century as one of the preeminent painters
both of her native country and of France, which she made her permanent home in
1875.
Cassatt spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, and then lived with her mother in Europe from 1851 until 1858. She returned to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1865 and in 1866 went back to France, which she decided was best suited for her professional goals. There she spent much time studying works by artists living and deceased, and painted with Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Edgar Degas. Her first public success came at the Salon of 1868 with a painting praised by a New York Times critic for its "vigor of treatment and fine qualities of color". Cassatt continued to exhibit at the Salon through the mid-1870s, and attracted the attention of Edgar Degas, who invited her to join the artists dedicated to the "new painting", the Impressionists.
After the final Impressionist exhibition of 1886, Cassatt began to experiment more widely, transforming her imagery with references to Old Master Madonna and Child paintings as well as Japanese prints.
Upon her death in 1926, Cassatt was honored by a number of memorial exhibitions, and remains one of the most acclaimed American-born artists. She is still the subject of major exhibitions, such as "Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman," which opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. A traveling exhibition, it included 100 of the most beautiful of her paintings, the first traveling retrospective of her work in 30 years." excerpted from Gallery Ro's biography for AskArt.com
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| About the Artist | (1844-1926, American) "An Impressionist painter, Mary Cassatt is best known for her mother and child
compositions. Born in 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, she
was recognized by the turn of the century as one of the preeminent painters
both of her native country and of France, which she made her permanent home in
1875. Cassatt spent her childhood in Pennsylvania, and then lived with her mother in Europe from 1851 until 1858. She returned to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1861 to 1865 and in 1866 went back to France, which she decided was best suited for her professional goals. There she spent much time studying works by artists living and deceased, and painted with Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Edgar Degas. Her first public success came at the Salon of 1868 with a painting praised by a New York Times critic for its "vigor of treatment and fine qualities of color". Cassatt continued to exhibit at the Salon through the mid-1870s, and attracted the attention of Edgar Degas, who invited her to join the artists dedicated to the "new painting", the Impressionists. After the final Impressionist exhibition of 1886, Cassatt began to experiment more widely, transforming her imagery with references to Old Master Madonna and Child paintings as well as Japanese prints. Upon her death in 1926, Cassatt was honored by a number of
memorial exhibitions, and remains one of the most acclaimed American-born
artists. She is still the subject of major exhibitions, such as "Mary
Cassatt, Modern Woman," which opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in
1998. A traveling exhibition, it included 100 of the most beautiful of her
paintings, the first traveling retrospective of her work in 30 years." excerpted from Gallery Ro's biography for AskArt.com |
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| Culture | USA, Women Artists |
| Medium | Graphite on greenish tan paper |
| Sight size | 8 3/4" height X 5 3/4" width |
| Frame | Gold finished fillet, fabric-wrapped window mat, UV filtering glass, ornate gold finished wood molding |
| Frame size | 22" height X 18 1/4" width |
| Signed | Estate stamped in oval cartouche "Collection Mary Cassatt Mathilde X" |
| Condition | Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed |
| Provenance | P Lar |
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