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Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878
14" x 11" Fine Art Print
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Maternal Kiss 1896
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Children Playing with a Cat
19" x 13" Fine Art Print
Price: $22.99
Children Playing with a Cat
14" x 11" Fine Art Print
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At the Window
13" x 19" Fine Art Print
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At the Window
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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After the Bath
19" x 13" Fine Art Print
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After the Bath
14" x 11" Fine Art Print
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Breakfast in Bed
28" x 25" Fine Art Print
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Mother and Child, 1897
18" x 24" Fine Art Print
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The Bath
8" x 11" Fine Art Print
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Children Playing on the Beach
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Two Seated Women
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
+ Multiple Sizes
Price: $51.99
Children Playing on the Beach
24" x 32" Fine Art Print
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The Letter
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Woman Bathing
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Children Playing On The Beach
26" x 34" Fine Art Print
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Summertime
12" x 12" Fine Art Print
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Breakfast in Bed
11" x 9" Fine Art Print
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The Bath
16" x 24" Fine Art Print
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Breakfast In Bed
32" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Breakfast In Bed
15" x 13" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
15" x 18" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
16" x 20" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
20" x 24" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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In The Omnibus
24" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
15" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
15" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
19" x 24" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
20" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Gathering Fruit
24" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Peasant Mother And Child
12" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Peasant Mother And Child
16" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) lived in Europe for five years as a young girl. She was tutored privately in art in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1861-65, but she preferred learning on her own and in 1866 traveled to Europe to study. Her first major showing was at the Paris Salon of 1872; four more annual Salon exhibitions followed.
In 1874 Cassatt chose Paris as her permanent residence and established her studio there. She shared with the Impressionists an interest in experiment and in using bright colours inspired by the out-of-doors. Edgar Degas became her friend; his style and that of Gustave Courbet inspired her own. Degas was known to admire her drawing especially, and at his request she exhibited with the Impressionists in 1879 and joined them in shows in 1880, 1881, and 1886. Like Degas, Cassatt showed great mastery of drawing, and both artists preferred unposed asymmetrical compositions. Cassatt also was innovative and inventive in exploiting the medium of pastels.
Initially, Cassatt was a figure painter whose subjects were groups of women drinking tea or on outings with friends. After the great exhibition of Japanese prints held in Paris in 1890, she brought out her series of 10 coloured prints--e.g., Woman Bathing and The Coiffure--in which the influence of the Japanese masters Utamaro and Toyokuni is apparent. In these etchings, combining aquatint, dry point, and soft ground, she brought her printmaking technique to perfection. Her emphasis shifted from form to line and pattern. Soon after 1900 her eyesight began to fail, and by 1914 she had ceased working. The principal motif of her mature and perhaps most familiar period is mothers caring for small children, e.g., The Bath (La Toilette, c. 1892; Art Institute of Chicago).
Cassatt urged her wealthy American friends and relatives to buy Impressionist paintings, and in this way, more than through her own works, she exerted a lasting influence on American taste. She was largely responsible for selecting the works that make up the H.O. Havemeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.