Term Papers on Mary Cassatt

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1847 and passed away on June 14, 1926. She was the first American artist to associate with the impressionists and the only American ever to exhibit with them. (The impressionist group were painters who aimed to represent the effects of light on objects.) She promoted the impressionists in the United States and is responsible for the appearance of many impressionist paintings in the U.S. collections. In 1861 she began to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, but proclaimed her independence by leaving in 1866 to paint in France.
In 1877 Cassatt met and began a close association with Edgar Degas, who invited her to join the impressionist group. When she exhibited A Woman in Black at the Opera (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) in the impressionist show of 1880, the influence of Degas and of their mutual study of Japanese prints was clearly evident. She continued to paint many subjects for which Degas is famous for, but her mature impressionists paintings, typified by Morning Toilet...

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