The French-American painter Mary Cassatt did not think much of Mother’s Day. She was more concerned with women’s suffrage, an issue she strongly supported and occasionally slipped into her paintings.

“Daring Methods: The Prints of Mary Cassatt” at the New York Public Library (all photographs by the author) Up in a hallway off the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library is a small ...

''Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,'' on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, is one of more than 130 works on exhibit at the ...

For all of her boldness as the only American to be a member of the French Impressionists, Mary Cassatt is often typecast as a painter of (dull) domestic scenes. Her mostly male colleagues—now being ...

As I stepped into the gallery at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, I found myself drawn into a world both familiar and elusive, mirroring the layers beneath Mary Cassatt’s brushstrokes that are ...

Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1877–78), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (89.5 x 129.9 cm); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (all images courtesy Philadelphia ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection of painter Mary Cassatt letters measures 0.2 linear feet and date from 1882-1926. The bulk of the letters are to Cassatt's nephew, ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Mary Cassatt at Work' is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 25 years. "She's often known as a painter, but in fact, as the exhibition reveals, she ...

“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 ...

It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges? By Josephine Sedgwick The ...