Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1877–78), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (89.5 x 129.9 cm); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (all images courtesy Philadelphia ...

''Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,'' on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, is one of more than 130 works on exhibit at the ...

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Reporting from Washington — In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that ...

Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt was one of the few women (and the only American) invited to join the circle of ...

Imagine yourself in Paris the spring of 1879, on the Avenue de l’Opera, walking into the fourth group exhibit by the Impressionist artists. Picking up the show’s catalog, you would see the ...

Mary Cassatt has been mostly remembered as the master of domestic scenes between mothers and children, an American painter loosely affiliated with the French Impressionists. Closer scrutiny to her ...

When Mother’s Day was proposed as a holiday in 1913, American-French artist Mary Cassatt was not particularly keen on the idea. “As a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage, she thought granting women ...

Mary Cassatt's circa-1880 watercolor, one of only two known self-portraits by the artist (image public domain via the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC) You would be forgiven for assuming, ...