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.

In 1874, a 19-year-old Louisine Waldron Elder was studying at the Madame Del Sarte’s boarding school in Paris when she crossed paths with 30-year-old Mary Stevenson Cassatt. Despite their age ...

''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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve always thought of Mary Cassatt’s paintings as pretty, colorful and sweet — a shiny celebration of mothers, children and upper-class women of the late 19th century. I thought it was cool that ...

From rare paintings by Cassatt to Mexican and agricultural art, New Bedford Art Museum shares its must-see exhibits for 2026.

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 ...