Mary Cassatt

It’s a question no one has asked me in a long time. During our exhibit at the PTO expo in Pleasanton, CA last week, an attendee asked me why there are so few women artists in the Art Docent Program. … Continued

Mary Cassatt. The Child’s Bath, 1893. Robert A. Waller Fund.

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Mary Cassatt- Self Portrait (1878) The families of Robert and Katherine Cassatt had been American pioneers for generations before the two married, but the newlyweds, unlike their forebearers had something different in mind. As members of...

Born to a prominent Pennsylvania family, Mary Cassatt spent her artistic career in Europe.

Impressionist painters: they were a motley group, radical for their time, daring, and adventurous. Their angle was to paint what they saw, rather than

A major retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how the Philly-raised impressionist focused on women’s work.

National Gallery of Art

A dark aubergine vase containing purple and white lilacs is shown placed on what seems to be a sill or work surface in a greenhouse, with the adjacent window held open by a prop. This most simple of subjects is presented with an angular fluency and dash characteristic of Cassatt's best work, which is not surprising given her love of gardens and flowers