Exhibition on Screen is a documentary series that explores the history behind works of art. Each episode focuses on a particular iconic piece, revealing the background that led to its creation and the ...

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

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.

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 ...

Mary Cassatt’s pastel portrait ‘Sara in a Bonnet’ (C. 1901). (Courtesy SBMA, Bequest of Leslie L. Ridley-Tree) Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art lecture series Art Matters will present a talk ...

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 ...

Historically, the subjects of Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist paintings—women and children who sit in gardens, lounge in armchairs and come together for afternoon tea—have sometimes been viewed as ...

Imagine yourself in Paris the spring of 1879, on the Avenue de l’Opera, walking into the fourth group exhibit by the Impressionist artists. Picking up the show’s catalog, you would see the ...

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 ...

As far back as the mid-1500s, when Catharina van Hemessen, age 20, became the first known artist to portray herself at an easel, many women—and men like Goya and Manet, too—have taken brush to canvas ...

"Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 26. Antiques (April 1977). "National Portrait Gallery ...