Light and Joy, Mary Cassatt
So American! The Impressionist painter was born into booming 1845 Pittsburgh
So American! The Impressionist painter was born into booming 1845 Pittsburgh. With childhood stints at French, German and American schools, the young artist was enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She travelled to and settled in Paris, where she met her mentor and long-time friend, Edgar Degas (1834-1917). She enjoyed a great popularity, her work selling well in the US, and she was able to help the Havemeyers build their impressionist collection. No surprise tha...

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Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt is famous for her paintings of the social as well as personal lives of women, with special stress on the intimate ties between mothers and their children. Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, today a part of Pittsburgh. She was born into prosperous conditions: her father, Robert Simpson Cassat (later Cassatt), was a flourishing stockbroker and land speculator, and her mother, Katherine Kelso Johnston, descended out of a banking family. The ancestral family name had ...

Mary Cassatt, An American Impressionist In A Man's World
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist
Mary Cassatt, an American Impressionist, inspired me to by my first art poster. In A Little Girl In A Blue Armchair Cassatt painted a child slumped in a chair, her skirt indelicately raised up over her legs while her little dog curls in a chair nearby. No picture has ever said, "I'm bored," more convincingly. We bought it and another Mary Cassatt masterpiece, The Boating Party, from the National Gallery in Washington. A pioneering impressionist who left a cushy life in Philadelphia to strug...

Mary Cassatt|Artist|Painter|Art of Mothers & Children
Mothers and Daughters|Mary Cassatt Artist-Sculptures of Mother's and Daughters
As I contemplated the artwork of Mary Cassatt I wrote a poem called "Sculptures of Mothers and Daughters-A Poem of Remembrance". I have posted it here below. I am a sculptor as well so it all seemed to fit quite well, Mary Cassatt, her loving pastels and paintings of children and their mothers, and me. ~~*~~ "Sculptures of Mothers and Daughters-A Poem of Remembrance" Sculptures of mothers and daughters tender works of art cast to be remembered this day this loving day. Mature women rememb...

About Mary Cassatt - American Artist
Learn about Mary Cassatt and her prints and paintings
This lens is about Mary Cassatt - the American Artist and Impressionist painter and printmaker. It provides links to where you can: - find out more about Mary Cassatt's life - see images of Cassatt's paintings - either on-line or in museums and galleries around the world - read about exhibitions of her paintings - get books about Cassatt's life and work - learn more about Cassatt and Impressionism The image is a painting of Mary Cassatt by her friend Edgar Degas (Source: Wikipedia)