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the ambassadors.(works of Mary Cassatt)(Brief article)
Byline: Kristin Hohenadel
In 1865, a 21-year-old Pennsylvanian named Mary Cassatt set sail for Paris, to study painting in the art center of the world. She took private classes and copied works in the Louvre, eventually becoming the only non-native member of the French Impressionists. "Americans in Paris: 1860-1900," opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this month, features nearly 100 works by Cassatt and other artists of her era who headed to the City of Light, among them James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer. Many of these painters went on to become leading figures in American art, but even those who, like Cassatt, made a career in France remained outsiders. The canvases here largely reveal postcard glimpses of Paris's superficial charms-its parks and gardens, street life and cafes-or the expatriate life of opera boxes and ...
- Artist Mary Cassatt Perseverance Brought Success To This American Impressionist...
- Magazine article from: Investor's Business Daily August 23, 2000 700+ words
...s Business Daily Mary Cassatt, an American artist in Paris in 1873, was enthralled...When she went to Paris in 1866, she focused...Mowll Mathews in "Mary Cassatt: A Life." "The...into sending her to Paris in 1866 to study...
- Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Bradburn, Frances October 1, 1995 700+ words
...531-20183-X). DDC:759.13. Gr. 4-7. These volumes introduce children to two famous American women artists, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe. Much of the Cassatt book focuses on her struggle to study art and be taken seriously as an artist...
- Celebrating everyday life.(art of Mary Cassatt)(Looking/Learning)
- Magazine article from: School Arts Denker, Eric September 1, 1998 700+ words
...design. About the Artist Mary Cassatt was born into an affluent...idea of studying in Paris. Her father, a conservative...Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Cassatt's failing...her death in 1926, Mary Cassatt was acknowledged as...When Cassatt settled in Paris, an artistic ...
- American Artist Mary Cassatt Celebrated with Postage Stamp; Third in American...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 8, 2003 700+ words
...children, American artist Mary Cassatt will be honored by the...Treasures Series, the Mary Cassatt stamps will be dedicated...settling permanently in Paris in the mid-1870s...stamps. To see the Mary Cassatt stamps, locate the...
- Mary Cassatt.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Burns, Mary M. January 1, 1993 700+ words
...live." This quote from Mary Cassatt might well be the theme...Certainly, in 1865 when Mary Cassatt decided to become an...would dare to meet. But Mary Cassatt did, spending most of...was accepted for the Paris Salon of 1868 -- an...
- Mary Cassatt.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Smith, Candace November 1, 2008 700+ words
Mary Cassatt. 2008. 22min. Getting to Know, DVD...representing Cassatt tells how she visited Paris as a youngster and vowed to become an...and drawings allow kids to see the real Mary Cassatt. The program ends with a slideshow of...
- Rare prints by Mary Cassatt on sale for $7 million.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 30, 2004 700+ words
...Byline: DAVID MINTHORN Mary Cassatt captured the essence...expatriate artist in Paris. Her prints _ one or...seeing current works of Mary Cassatt," said Warren Adelson...Belgium. She settled in Paris in 1874, six years after...
- Gentle innovator. (exhibit 'Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman,' Art Institute of...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Tuchman, Phyllis November 1, 1998 700+ words
Though we correctly associate Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) with quiet domestic...surprises. These are apparent in "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," on view through...Philadelphia, Cassatt settled in Paris in 1865 (her sister joined soon...
- Exhibit offers deeper impressions of artist Mary Cassatt.(South Florida...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schudel, Matt February 5, 2001 700+ words
...WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ Mary Cassatt, an American artist who lived in Paris at the height of the Impressionist...Unknown Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt," carried with it an exciting...For years, a reclusive Paris collector had held on to...
- Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ivinski, Pamela A. November 1, 2004 700+ words
...the work is signed "Mary Cassatt"--but backwards...impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. Forty-eight counterproofs...Society of Etchers) in Paris, with the aim of reviving...Pastellistes was organized in Paris in 1870, seeking to...
