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Mary CassattThe unflinching embrace of motherhood

Mary Cassatt was a U.S. artist born in 1844. Cassatt contributed to the Impressionist movement and died in 1926. Get notified when Mary Cassatt's biography is complete:

Portrait of the Artist

Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly

The Cup of Tea

Lilacs in a Window (Vase de Lilas a la Fenetre)

Lady at the Tea Table

Girl Arranging Her Hair

In the Omnibus

The Coiffure (La Toilette)

The Letter

The Child's Bath

The Boating Party

La Tasse de The

Young Mother Sewing

The Caress

Denise at Her Dressing Table

Berthe Morisot

The soul of Impressionism

Mary Cassatt

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Edgar Degas

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

A self-taught painter struggles through poverty and war

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan

Osman Hamdi Bey

African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture

Mary Edmonia Lewis

Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

Sarah Bernhardt

America's uncompromising realist

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