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Mary Cassatt is only one of a handful of women artists up to the beginning of the twentieth century who have managed to forge strong reputations in the male-dominated saga of art history. She was an American by birth but lived in France for sixty years who helped to develop the first great movement in modern art: Impressionism. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s1e25: Mary Cassatt, Sky Arts 2003
The Boating Party and pays distant but direct homage to a work produced by Manet. ibid.
Perhaps in homage to her own mother Cassatt explored more intently than ever the subject of mother and child. ibid.
She is a very important early great American artist, helping to build up a cultural momentum whose impact is still evident today ... She is a pioneering woman figure, one of a handful of woman artists before the twentieth century whose reputations were strong. ibid.
Another female painter who appeared in these shows – Mary Cassatt – was an American ... Look how spooky she is and psychological. Waldemar Januszczak, The Impressionists III: Painting and Revolution: Painting the People, BBC 2011
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work. Mary Cassatt
[Nicole Georgopulos]: ‘Cassatt is a very difficult artist. There is something difficult and ugly about her work.’ Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman, Sky Arts 2025
‘There is something challenging about her work that keeps me looking, keeps me coming back.’ ibid.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny City, part of modern Pittsburgh. ibid. narrator
The ambitious teenager yearned for a more independent artistic community, and access to the very best art. ibid.
But cracks in the salon system were starting to show. ibid.
One of her first cavasses: The Mandolin Player in 1868. ibid.
Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival, 1872. ibid.
Cassatt continued to travel throughout Europe, absorbing and studying every genre of art and Old Master painting she could find. ibid.
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879. ibid.
‘New Woman: a subject that Cassatt embraced in her work.’ ibid. comment
‘She was a very keen manipulator of her own market.’ ibid.
Her pictures were being hung in gallaries around the world. ibid.