Happy Birthday, Mary Cassatt!Born today in 1844, Philadelphia painter Mary Cassatt spent most of her life in Paris, where she was a close friend and colleague of the French impressionists, especially Edgar Degas.
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Happy Birthday, Mary Cassatt!Born today in 1844, Philadelphia painter Mary Cassatt spent most of her life in Paris, where she was a close friend and colleague of the French impressionists, especially Edgar Degas.
The only American to exhibit with the French impressionists, Mary Cassatt became known for her many paintings of mothers and children.
Other works by Cassatt can be seen online in the web site for our traveling exhibition American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Source: Elizabeth Prelinger. American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2000).
Pictured: Mary Cassatt, 1844 USA–1926 France, Sara in a Green Bonnet, about 1901, oil, 16 1/2 x 13 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.