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    Mary Cassatt: Meet The Artist Did You Know?

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    Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter who lived from 1844 to 1926. She studied art in Philadelphia but later moved to Paris in 1865, which was a major center for art at the time. In Paris, she was inspired by the French Impressionists and their practice of painting everyday scenes and subjects in everyday light. However, Cassatt focused specifically on depicting domestic and social scenes of women and children, drawing from her own experiences. Some of her most famous works show women and children bathing, sewing, or engaging in other domestic activities. She helped popularize Impressionism in the United States by encouraging wealthy Americans to purchase Impressionist works.

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    Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter who lived from 1844 to 1926. She studied art in Philadelphia but later moved to Paris in 1865, which was a major center for art at the time. In Paris, she was inspired by the French Impressionists and their practice of painting everyday scenes and subjects in everyday light. However, Cassatt focused specifically on depicting domestic and social scenes of women and children, drawing from her own experiences. Some of her most famous works show women and children bathing, sewing, or engaging in other domestic activities. She helped popularize Impressionism in the United States by encouraging wealthy Americans to purchase Impressionist works.

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    Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter who lived from 1844 to 1926. She studied art in Philadelphia but later moved to Paris in 1865, which was a major center for art at the time. In Paris, she was inspired by the French Impressionists and their practice of painting everyday scenes and subjects in everyday light. However, Cassatt focused specifically on depicting domestic and social scenes of women and children, drawing from her own experiences. Some of her most famous works show women and children bathing, sewing, or engaging in other domestic activities. She helped popularize Impressionism in the United States by encouraging wealthy Americans to purchase Impressionist works.

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    Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter who lived from 1844 to 1926. She studied art in Philadelphia but later moved to Paris in 1865, which was a major center for art at the time. In Paris, she was inspired by the French Impressionists and their practice of painting everyday scenes and subjects in everyday light. However, Cassatt focused specifically on depicting domestic and social scenes of women and children, drawing from her own experiences. Some of her most famous works show women and children bathing, sewing, or engaging in other domestic activities. She helped popularize Impressionism in the United States by encouraging wealthy Americans to purchase Impressionist works.

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    Mary Cassatt
    Mary Cassatt grew up in a wealthy American family and lived in
    a lot of different places—France, Germany, the United States—
    during her childhood. She knew from a young age that she
    wanted to be an artist, and from 1861-65, she studied art at
    the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1865,
    Cassatt moved to Paris, France, which was the center of the art
    world at the time. She was inspired by the work of the French
    Impressionists; but instead of painting beautiful landscapes,
    Cassatt focused on the domestic and social lives of women. This
    was a world she knew and understood in a way that was differ-
    ent from her male counterparts. For example, she liked to paint
    women and children playing, bathing, sewing or taking part in
    other home-life activities. She also painted social activities such
    as women enjoying the theater, opera or a day at sea.
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    Article written by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
    Image from: The National Gallery of Art

    Did you know? Meet the Artist


    Even though she lived in France, Mary Cassatt helped make
    Impressionism popular in the United States. She encouraged • Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844
    many wealthy Americans to purchase Impressionist artwork in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; she died in
    for their collections and for museums. 1926.

    • Mary lived in Allegheny City and Paris.

    • She was an Impressionist painter.

    Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1878


    Image from: The National Gallery of Art

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