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 ...

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 ...

Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece *A Girl with a Pink and Black Hat* (1891) fully embodies the French Impressionist master’s ...

Neither Ryder, Eakins, Homer, nor Mary Cassatt belonged to this school; they had something else to say and said it in a more ...

''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 ...

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.

Painters Mary Cassatt and Helen McNicoll belonged to different generations and apparently never met, but “Cassatt-McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds,” a new exhibition opening on May 31 at the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...