Cassatt and artworks

Nathalia Brodskaïa

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Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture. Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first saw Paris, and she was still in her teens when she decided to become a painter. She went to Italy, on to Antwerp, then to Rome, andfinally returned to Paris where in 1874, she permanently settled. In 1872, Cassatt sent her first work to the Salon, others followed in the succeeding years until 1875, when a portrait of her sister was rejected. She divined that the jury had not been satisfied with the background, so she re-painted it several times until, in the next Salon, the same portrait was accepted. At this moment Degas asked her to exhibit with him and his friends, the Impressionist Group, then rising into view, and she accepted with joy. She admired Manet, Courbet and Degas, and hated conventional art. Cassatt’s biographer stressed the intellectuality and sentiment apparent in her work, as well as the emotion and distinction with which she has painted her favourite models: babies and their mothers. He then speaks of her predominant interest in draughtsmanship and her gift for linear pattern, a gift greatly strengthened by her study of Japanese art and her emulation of its style in the colour prints she made. While her style may partake of the style of others, her draughtsmanship, her composition, her light, and her colour are, indeed, her own. There are qualities of tenderness in her work which could have been put there, perhaps, only by a woman. The qualities which make her work of lasting value are those put there by an outstanding painter.

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• Painting
• Art
• American
• América
• Painter
• Cassatt
• Impressionism
• Artist
• Peinture

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• Publié par: Parkstone International
• Date de parution: 04 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781608449
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Nathalia Brodskaïa



Cassatt
and artworks
Author: Nathalia Brodskaïa
Translator: Sofya Hundt
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ISBN: 978-1-78160-844-9
Contents
BIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A
A Corner of the Loge
A Woman and a Girl Driving
After the Bath
After the Bullfight
Afternoon Tea Party
At the Theatre
At the Theatre
Autumn
B
Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother’s Shoulder (No. 3)
Baby Getting Up from His Nap
Baby’s First Caress
Bacchante
Breakfast in Bed
C
Child Picking a Fruit
Child with Bare Feet
Children in the Garden
Children Playing on the Beach
Contemplation
D
During Carnival
Ellen Mary Cassatt in a White Coat
Emmie and Her Child
F
Feeding the Ducks
Girl Arranging Her Hair
Girl in Green
I
In the Garden
In the Loge, at the Opera
In the Omnibus
In the Park
Interior Scene
J
Jenny Cassatt and Her Son
L
Lady at the Tea Table
Little Girl in a Big Straw Hat and Pinafore
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Lydia Leaning on Her Arms Seated in a Loge
Lydia Working at a Tapestry Frame
M/N
Margot Embracing Her Mother
Margot in Blue
Margot Leaning against Her Mother
Maternal Caress
Miss Mary Ellison
Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Mother and Child in a Boat
Mother Feeding Her Child
Mother Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to the Right
Mother Holding a Child in Her Arms
Mother Nursing her Baby
Mother’s Goodnight Kiss
Mother’s Kiss
Mrs Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading
Mrs R. S. Cassatt
Nude Child
O
Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter
On a Balcony
On the Balcony
On the Grass
P
Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt
Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso Cassatt
Portrait of an Elderly Lady
Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée
Portrait of the Artist
R
Reflection
Reine Lefebvre Holding a Nude Baby
Rest
S
Sara in a Green Bonnet
Self Portrait
Simone and Her Mother in a Garden
Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla
Summertime
Summertime
Susan Comforting the Baby (No. 1)
T
Tea
The Banjo lesson
The Banjo Lesson
The Bath
The Bath
The Boating Party
The Caress
The Child and the Parrot
The Coiffure
The Cup of Tea
The Cup of Tea
The Family
The Infant
The Kitchen Garden
The Lamp
The Lesson
The Letter
The Mirror
The Parrot
The Tea
The Young Bride
Tranquility
Two Young Ladies in a Loge
W
Woman and Child Admiring a Baby
Woman at Her Toilette
Woman Bathing
Woman in a Raspberry Costume
Woman Reading
Woman Standing, Holding a Fan
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
Woman with a Red Zinnia
Woman with her Child
Women in a Loge
Y
Young Girl at a Window
Young Mother
Young Mother
Young Mother and Two Children
Young Mother in a Park in front of a Pond
Young Mother Nursing Her Child
Young Woman in Black (Portrait of Madame J.)
Young Woman picking Fruit
Young Woman Sewing
Young Woman Sewing in a Garden
Young Woman Trying on a Dress
“I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?”
Mary Cassatt
Photograph of Mary Cassatt
Biography
1844:
Birth of Mary Stevenson Cassatt near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of a wealthy businessman. Before she is 10 years old, she visits numerous European capitals.
1851:
She lives with her parents in Paris, and the following year she lives in Berlin.
1855:
Her family goes back to the U.S.A
1860-65:
Mary Cassatt studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts despite her parents’ objections.
1866:
She goes back to Paris where she copies old masters in museums, especially in the Louvre. Jean-Léon Gérôme accepts her as a student.
1868:
She visits Barbizon and is very eager to study its style. Mandolin Player is accepted by the Salon jury
1869:
She is rejected by the Salon of Academic Art along with Cézanne, Monet and Sisley. Bazille, Degas, Pissarro and Renoir each have one work accepted.
1871-72:
She lives with her mother in Rome, as do many American artists at this time, and travels throughout Europe: Italy, Spain, France etc.
1873-74:
Creation of Salon des refusés. One of her paintings, Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter , is accepted by the Salon in Paris. She signs it “Mary Stevenson-Cassatt” using her middle name.
1874:
Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. exhibition, which is the first Impressionism show, takes place in Nadar's studio, 35 boulevard des Capucines. Cassatt, abroad, misses this event.
1877:
Degas invites her to exhibit with the Impressionists. She also advises Louisine Havemeyer in buying Degas and other impressionists' paintings.
1878:
Cassatt and Pissarro have a consistent correspondence indicating that they have a long friendship and professional collaboration. Cassatt admires Pissarro's work.
1879:
Her work hangs in the Impressionism show. She begins a long friendship with Berthe Morisot and is very close to Degas. The latter asks Cassatt, Pissarro and Bracquemond to contribute to Le Jour et la Nuit. She remains an active Impressionism member until 1886 and buys several impressionist paintings especially for her brother, Alexander.
1882:
Her sister Lydia dies.
1886:
Her style evolves and she no longer identifies herself with any movement.
1890:
She exhibits series of dry-points and aquatints and pastels in Durand-Ruel exhibition. She is strongly influenced by Japonese printmaking.
1890-1900:
She is very active as an adviser to numerous art collectors.
1904:
She receives the Légion d’Honneur for her contribution to the arts.
1926:
She dies blind near Paris at the age of 82 years.