Mary Cassatt was born in an affluent Philadelphia family. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art from 1861 to 1864 before moving to Europe to continue her training
[[[Mary Cassatt]]] was not only one of the few women painters in America to prosper and gain international recognition but she was one of the few American painters of either sex to flourish in the impressionist world of late nineteenth century France.
Cassatt grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education; she spent 5 years in Europe and visited many of the capitals, including London, Paris, and Berlin. While abroad she learned German and French and had her first lessons in drawing and music
She settled in Paris where she was a student of Edgar Degas who taught her the concepts of Impressionism.
As a wealthy expatriate, she had the means to devote herself to her art and used her domestic life as subject matter. She painted fashionable women who were conversing, having tea, and at outings with friends and their children.
Her pictures are characterized by a spontaneity and freshness of vision which prevails in the asymmetrical and unposed figures of her oil paintings. Her drawings and prints show a personal mastery of linearism and perspective that owed much to Degas and Oriental Art.
She understood that establishing a tension between the two would capture the immediacy of vision, as well as mimic or falsify by turns, the focal shifts of human sight and perception.
 CASSATT BANJO LESSON STRETCHED CANVAS GICLEE REPR 30X24  US $89.99
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 MARY CASSATT Lilacs in Window Repro CANVAS ART PRINT US $125.99
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 THE WATER GARDEN Childe Hassam NATURE art CANVAS print US $18.25
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 FRAMED Mary Cassatt Vase of Lilacs ART Repro on CANVAS US $106.98
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 12x8 Art Photo Mary Cassatt 1844 1926 CARESS US $14.15
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 MARY STEVENSON CASSATT Elsie Cassat Holding Dog PRINT US $55.33
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 MARY CASSATT Woman Bathing nude CANVAS ART US $50.59
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 FRAMED Mary Cassatt Children Repro Print CANVAS ART US $191.98
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 8x10 Art Photo Print Mary Cassatt 1844 1926 TOREADOR US $11.46
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 Mary Cassatt Lady at the Tea Table canvas print US $21.99
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 Mary Cassatt Woman Pearl Necklace Loge US $21.99
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 12x8 Art Photo Print Mary Cassatt 1844 1926NEW FLIRTATIONBALCONYIN SEVILLE US $14.15
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 8x10 Art Photo Print Mary Cassatt 1844 1926NEW YOUNG WOMAN SEWINGINA GARDEN US $11.46
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 Mary Cassatt In the Loge canvas print US $21.99
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 12x8 Art Photo Mary Cassatt 1844 1926 CASSATT US $14.15
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