Tour: Mary Cassatt — Selected Color Prints

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Known for her perceptive depictions of women and children, Mary Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the nineteenth-century French avant-garde. Born to a prominent Pittsburgh family, she traveled extensively through Europe with her parents and siblings while a child. Between 1860 and 1864 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. At the age of twenty-two Cassatt went abroad, studying old master paintings in European museums. In Paris, she studied with prominent academic painters and independently at the Louvre. Returning to the United States for a short period, Cassatt went back to Europe in 1871, spending her time painting and copying the old masters in museums in Italy, Spain, and Belgium. (continue)

Captions

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1	Mary Cassatt, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, c. 1889
2	Mary Cassatt, The Bath, 1890-1891
3	Mary Cassatt, The Lamp, c. 1891
4	Mary Cassatt, In the Omnibus, 1890-1891
5	Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890-1891
6	Mary Cassatt, The Fitting, 1890-1891
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7	Mary Cassatt, Woman Bathing, 1890-1891
8	Mary Cassatt, Mother's Kiss, 1890-1891
9	Mary Cassatt, Maternal Caress, 1890-1891
10	Mary Cassatt, Afternoon Tea Party, 1890-1891
11	Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure, 1890-1891
12	Mary Cassatt, Gathering Fruit, c. 1893