MARY CASSATT

MARY CASSATT“Cassatt's life was marked by her bold resolve to transcend conventional expectations for women and to succeed as an innovative professional artist.”Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Portrait of a Little Girl• “Cassatt submitted

this painting to the American section of the 1878 Paris world's fair. It was refused, confirming Cassatt's alliance with the Impressionists and her determination to reject the commonplace system of juried exhibitions.”

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Girls

• Young Girl at a Windowc. 1883Oil on canvas100.3 x 64.7 cmCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

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GirlsThe Banjo Lesson1893/94Pastel over oiled pastel on tan wove paper72.2 x 58.6 cmVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

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Girls

• The Loge• c.1880

Oil on canvas31.5 x 25.25 inches / 80.01 x 64.14 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USAAdded 12/3/2001http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=631

Girls

• Portrait of a Lady1877Oil on canvas85.7 x 65.2 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington

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Girls

• 1886Oil on canvas29.5 x 24.5 inches / 74.93 x 62.23 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USAAdded 12/3/2001

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Portrait of a Little Girl1878, Oil on canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Girls

Backgrounds Are Significant

• "...Cassatt had completely absorbed from her Impressionist colleagues Caillebotte, Degas, and Renoir, as well as her study of Japanese prints, the modern idea that the background of a painting might be as significant as the foreground. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cassatt.html

Backgrounds Are Significant

• Cassatt, MaryThe Lamp1890-91Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid paper32.3 x 25.2 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese Influence

• Cassatt, MaryThe Letter1890-91Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid paper34.5 x 21.1 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago

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In the Loge (At the Français, a Sketch)1877-78, Oil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Hayden Collection, 1910 10.35

Cassatt exhibited this painting in Boston in 1878; in 1910 it became one of the first of her works to enter the collection of an American museum.”

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Women

Women

Cassatt, MaryWoman in Black (Femme en noir)c. 1882Oil on canvas100.6 x 74 cm (39 3/4 x 29 in.)

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Women

• c.1880Oil on canvas36.25 x 25.75 inches / 92.08 x 65.41 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York, USAAdded 12/3/2001http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=631

Women

• Reading "Le Figaro", 1878, oil on canvas, private collection.

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Women

• Cassatt, Mary Lydia in a Loge, Wearing a Pearl Necklace 1879Oil on canvas 31 5/8 x 23 in (80.3 x 58.4 cm)Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Women

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly 1880Oil on canvas 26 x 37 in (66 x 94 cm)Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkhttp://www.artchive.com/

Women

• Cassatt, MaryWoman Standing, Holding a Fan1878/79Distemper with metallic paint on canvas128.6 x 72 cmPrivate collection

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Women

The Bath1890-91Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid paper36.8 x 26.3 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago

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Women

• Cassatt, MaryYoung Woman Trying on a Dress1890-91Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid paper37.7 x 25.6 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago

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Women

• Cassatt, MaryYoung Women Picking Fruit1891/92Oil on canvas132 x 91.5 cmCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

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Women• Lydia at the

Tapestry Loom• Oil on canvas

25.5 x 36.5 inches / 64.77 x 92.71 cmFlint Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

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Motherhood

• Cassatt, MaryMother and Childc. 1900Pastel on tan wove paper71 x 58.5 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago

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Motherhood

Cassatt, MaryYoung Mother1900Oil on canvas92.4 x 73.7 cmThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Motherhood

• La Toilettec. 1891Oil on canvas39 1/2 x 26 in.The Art Institute of Chicago

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Motherhood

• Child Picking a Fruit1893Oil on canvas100 x 65 cmVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

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Motherhood

• 1900Oil on canvas36.5 x 28.75 inches / 92.71 x 73.03 cmPrivate collectionAdded 12/3/2001http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=631

Motherhood

Mothers and Daughters

• Summertimec. 1894Oil on canvas100.7 x 81.3 cmTerra Foundation for the Arts

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Mothers and Daughters• Cassatt,

Mary Le the (Five O'Clock Tea) 1880Oil on canvas 25 1/2 x 36 1/2 in (64.7 x 92.7 cm) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Women and Children

• Children Playing With Cat

• 1908Oil on canvas33 x 41 inches / 83.82 x 104.14 cmPrivate collection

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Women and Children

• Woman and Child Driving, 1879-81, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Families• The Boating Party1893-94Oil on canvas90.2 x 117.5 cm (35 1/2 x 46 1/4 in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso Cassatt1884-85, Oil on canvasPurchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund and funds contributed by Mrs. William Coxe Wright; Philadelphia Museum of Art

Images of men are unusual in Cassatt's work.

This is a portrait of her brother Alexander with Robbie, the third of his four children.

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Men

Men• Toreador• 1873

Oil on canvas32.25 x 25.25 inches / 81.92 x 64.14 cmThe Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USAhttp://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=631

Self Portrait

• Self-portraitc. 1880Watercolor on ivory wove paper33 x 24 cmNational Portrait Gallery, Washington

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Divide into Groups

• 1. Mary Cassatt’s

biography• 2. Women• 3. Children• 4. Motherhood• 5. Men• 6. Families