If you ask someone to name painters from the Impressionist movement, they likely will list several French men, particularly Monet, Degas and Renoir. But one of the most influential artists of that ...

393 pages. $24.95. Biography is an exhaustive craft, yet not always a creative one. The biographer, student of another life, peers at the evidence of a personage, sorts it out, then tries to ...

COPENHAGEN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874 is celebrated at Ordrupgaard with a magnificent exhibition highlighting the women of ...

Summer afternoons, mothers, children, sunlight, gardens, tea. These are among the small momentary domestic pleasures that we think of in conjunction with the paintings of Mary Cassatt. And what of the ...

This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist ...

Despite spending more than 60 years painting in Paris, and considered by her home country as one of the greatest artists of her time, American Mary Cassatt has received little attention from the ...

Every period attempts to find its own values in artists of the past. Sometimes the desired qualities are present; sometimes they’re not. But always there’s an effort to search them out, as what ...

“Louisine Havemeyer and Her Daughter Electra” by Mary Cassatt Credit: Courtesy of Shelburne Museum Impressionist art reached the U.S. in the last quarter of the 19th century largely because of two ...

Painter Mary Cassatt often depicted images of women and children, emphasizing the intimate bonds between mother and child. One such work is “Mother and Two Children,” painted around 1905, which came ...