Mary Cassatt
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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Background
- Born in
- Allegheny
- Educated at
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Trending topics shown first"Finding Aid to the Mary Cassatt letters, 1882-1926, at the Smithsonian Archives of Art"
"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
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1844
Born
Birth1926
Died
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