Cassett, Mary

(1845-1926)

Cassatt, Mary (1845-1926) An American painter, printmaker, and pastelist,
Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh, the daughter of a banker who offered her little
encouragement with her painting. In 1868, after traveling widely in Europe, she
settled in Paris to study and became interested in Courbet, Manet, and the
Impressionists. In 1877 she met Degas, who invited her to exhibit with the
Impressionists, which she did. Cassatt's paintings are frequently of mothers
and children, but despite their subject matter, they are known to lack
sentimentality. The color prints which she did in the 1890s are memorable for
their discipline of line and subtlety of color.

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