ARTIST

Mary Cassatt

1844–1926 · United States

Mary Cassatt, an American painter and printmaker, captured the intimate world of women and children with remarkable tenderness, often exhibiting with the Impressionists in France.

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived much 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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NOTABLE WORKS
After the Bullfight 1873 · Art Institute of Chicago In the Opera Box (No. 3) 1875 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lydia and Her Mother at Tea 1875 · Cleveland Museum of Art Knitting in the Library (verso) 1876 · Cleveland Museum of Art The Visitor (recto) 1876 · Cleveland Museum of Art Knitting in the Library (recto) 1876 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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