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Mary Cassatt Prints
About Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker, born in 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in 1926 at the Château de Beaufresne near Paris. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, went to Europe in 1866 to study with painters including Jean-Léon Gérôme and Thomas Couture, and made Paris her permanent home in 1874.
Edgar Degas admired her drawing and invited her to show with the Impressionists, and from 1879 Mary Cassatt exhibited in several of their exhibitions, the only American officially part of the group. She is best known for tender, unsentimental scenes of women's everyday lives, above all mothers caring for small children, as in Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) and The Child's Bath (1893). After seeing an exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris in 1890, she made a celebrated series of ten colour prints. Failing eyesight forced her to stop working by 1914.
Mary Cassatt prints: reproductions of the Impressionist paintings and colour prints American artist Mary Cassatt made between 1880 and 1914. Works in the collection include The Child's Bath (1893), La Coiffure (1891), Woman Bathing (1891), The Fitting (1890) and Under the Horse Chestnut Tree (1896).
This selection concentrates on Cassatt's scenes of women's daily lives: bathing, dressing, fitting clothes and caring for babies. It includes three of her colour prints from the early 1890s, La Coiffure, Woman Bathing and The Fitting, with their flat areas of colour and clear outlines, as well as paintings such as The Boating Party and portraits of young women outdoors. La Coiffure and Woman Bathing are also offered as a matched pair.
The soft colours and private subjects suit bedrooms, bathrooms, dressing rooms and nurseries. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
