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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...