Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became with famous French Impressionist Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Mary Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. Famous Cassatt paintings include The Boating Party and various depictions of the mother and child relationship, see below for more or go to the bottom of the page for more information on Mary Cassatt. She is best known for covering the social and private lives of women.
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Mary Cassatt received her training at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Chaplin, and by Thomas Couture. Many of her works are now stored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in Boston and in Philadelphia. Cassatt was best known for her paintings of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
Cassatt found difficulties with her family inpursuing her career, whilst at others times they proved helpful. Cassatt’s father insisted that her studio and supplies be covered by her sales, which were still meager. Afraid of having to paint “potboilers” to make ends meet, Cassatt applied herself to produce some quality paintings for the next Impressionist exhibition. Three of her most accomplished works from 1878 were Portrait of the Artist (self-portrait), Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, and Reading Le Figaro (portrait of her mother).
Degas was a key friend in her rise in Impressionism. e Impressionist exhibit of 1879 was the most successful to date, despite the absence of Renoir, Sisley, Manet and Cézanne, who were attempting once again to gain recognition at the Salon. Through the efforts of Gustave Caillebotte, who organized and underwrote the show, the group made a profit and sold many works, although the criticism continued as harsh as ever. The Revue des Deux Mondes wrote, “M. Degas and Mlle. Cassatt are, nevertheless, the only artists who distinguish themselves...and who offer some attraction and some excuse in the pretentious show of window dressing and infantile daubing”. She also had many other friends in the art movement, but Degas was a key one.
Cassatt paintings proved popular in France and only later in America, which now fully recognises her as a ground-breaking artist for both female oil painters but also famous American artists.
