Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (1844 - 1926) · United States · Artists · Died at 82
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Something wrong?She painted what the academy ignored - mothers and children in unposed moments, the texture of private life - and became the only American invited into the core circle of the French Impressionists.
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Brooklyn Museum - Letter to Mr. Avery - Mary Cassatt
Buste de fillette, PPD1005
Mary Cassatt - Summertime - TFAA 1988.25
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, ..crushed by the strength of this Art [the old Egyptian art].. .I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us..
..we [the Impressionists ] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his [Degas'] art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
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Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1844, Mary Stevenson Cassatt spent most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and began exhibiting with the Impressionists. She focused her work on the social and private lives of women, returning again and again to the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In 1879, Diego Martelli compared her to Degas for the way both sought to capture movement, light, and design in a distinctly modern sense; Gustave Geffroy later named her one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. Beyond her own canvases, she became a crucial bridge, introducing Impressionism to American collectors through her friendship with the Havemeyer family. She died in France in 1926.
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