Mary Cassatt - Breakfast in Bed 1897 My favorite oil painting

As it’s coming up to Mother’s Day, I thought I’d celebrate by compiling an article about Mothers in Art. Initially, I thought of blue gowned Renaissance madonnas, or chubby Renoir babies balancing on the knees of fresh cheeked country girls...

A major retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how the Philly-raised impressionist focused on women’s work.

size: 12x9in Giclee Print: The Cup of Tea, Ca, 1880-81 by Mary Cassatt : Artists Raised in an affluent family, Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) was one of the few 19th-century American women to become a professional artist in an era when wealthy women did not typically pursue a career. Cassatt studied in the United States, but spent most of her life in France. Mesmerized by the pastel work of Edgar Degas, she found it life-changing as she became an influential Impressionist. Children and…

Sara Holding a Cat

During her lifetime and since her death in 1926, the painter, printer, and pastels virtuoso has often been reduced to single aspects of her life and work.

In this gallery, we showcase 30 works by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. The selection here is presented in chronological sequence to show the artist's career progression...

National Gallery of Art

Impressionist painters: they were a motley group, radical for their time, daring, and adventurous. Their angle was to paint what they saw, rather than