“are leaving the Academy style and each seeking a new way, consequently just now everything is Chaos.”
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Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
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culture · American painter and printmaker (1844–1926) · painter · printmaker · graphic artist · photographer · etcher · also Mary Cassatt, Cassatt
Born 22 May 1844 · Died 14 June 1926 · Q173223
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2026· 4 entries
“Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt”
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Public attention spiked: 4,344 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.4× the usual 349, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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Yahoo: A turn-of-the-century Mary Cassatt painting subtly hints at a female future
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2025· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Mary Cassatt Was Forever an American in Paris
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2024· 4 entries
Hyperallergic: The Various Talents of Mary Cassatt
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Mary Cassatt at Work’ Review: Labors of Love
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Forbes: Philadelphia Museum Of Art Shines A Fresh Light On Mary Cassatt
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Artnet: Mary Cassatt Was More Than Just a Painter of ‘Perpetual Afternoon Tea’
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2022· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Mary Cassatt letters
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2019· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Mary Cassatt’s ‘Girl Arranging Her Hair’ was thought to have been painted by Degas
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Artnet: The Impressionist Painters Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt Had a Stormy Relationship. Now a New Play Is Bringing Their Battle of Wills to Life
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2014· 1 entry
The National Gallery of Art examined their long friendship in its exhibit Degas/Cassatt
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2013· 1 entry
Yahoo: NYC exhibit showcases Mary Cassatt as printmaker
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2009· 2 entries
Was honored by a Google Doodle in recognition of her birthday
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The award-winning group recorded String Quartets Nos
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2003· 1 entry
Four of her paintings – Young Mother (1888), Children Playing on the Beach (1884), On a Balcony (1878/79) and Child in a Straw Hat (c
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Cassatt was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1966· 1 entry
Cassatt's painting The Boating Party was reproduced on a US postage stamp
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1926· 3 entries
At Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, and was buried in the family vault at Le Mesnil-Théribus, France
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Died 1926-06-14.
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“As mulheres devem ser alguém e não algo.”
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1925· 1 entry
Was featured on 32nd Annual Exhibition of American Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, together with Louise Woodroofe, Childe Hassam and Robert Henri
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1915· 1 entry
Showed eighteen works in an exhibition supporting the movement organised by Louisine Havemeyer, a committed and active feminist
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1911· 1 entry
Did not slow down, but after 1914, she was forced to stop painting as she became almost blind
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1910· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1910).
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Impressed Cassatt with the beauty of its ancient art, but was followed by a crisis of creativity; not only had the trip exhausted her, but she declared herself "crushed by the strength of this Art", saying, "I fought aga
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1891· 2 entries
Exhibited a series of highly original colored drypoint and aquatint prints, including Woman Bathing and The Coiffure, inspired by the Japanese masters shown in Paris the year before
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Chicago socialite Bertha Palmer approached Cassatt to paint a 12' × 58' mural about "Modern Woman" for the Women's Building for the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893
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1886· 1 entry
Cassatt provided two paintings for the first Impressionist exhibition in the US, organized by art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel
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1883· 1 entry
And with Cassatt as advisor, the couple began collecting the Impressionists on a grand scale
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1882· 1 entry
Left Cassatt temporarily unable to work
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1880· 1 entry
And 1881, and she remained an active member of the Impressionist circle until 1886
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1879· 1 entry
Diego Martelli compared her to Degas, as they both sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense
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1877· 3 entries
Degas, Cassatt, and Lydia were often to be seen at the Louvre studying artworks together
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Cassatt was joined in Paris by her father and mother, who returned with her sister Lydia, all eventually to share a large apartment on the fifth floor of 13, Avenue Trudaine
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Both her entries were rejected, and for the first time in seven years, she had no works in the Salon
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1875· 1 entry
Was refused by the jury, only to be accepted the following year after she darkened the background
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1874· 1 entry
Made the decision to take up residence in France
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1868· 2 entries
Cassatt also studied with artist Thomas Couture, whose subjects were mostly romantic and urban
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One of her paintings, A Mandoline Player, was accepted for the first time by the selection jury for the Paris Salon
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1866· 1 entry
With her mother and family friends acting as chaperones
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-05-22.
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