Entertainment & Arts
Mary Cassatt captured the essence of Gilded Age femininity in her beguiling portraits of mothers with children and young girls with pets in genteel domestic settings.
Nov. 2, 2004
In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that might embolden her painting.
May 24, 2014
MARY CASSATT: A Life by Nancy Mowll Mathews (Villard: $28; 383 pp.)
May 8, 1994
Review: A retrospective of Mary Cassatt’s work shows her to be much more than ‘a painter of mothers and children.’
Nov. 22, 1998
Books
Toward the end of the 19th Century, two American women, a Philadelphian and a Californian, left the United States and settled in Paris to pursue careers as artists.
Feb. 28, 1991
Four paintings by Impressionist Mary Cassatt will be featured on a set of 37-cent postage stamps to be issued Aug. 7 Cassatt, the only American invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists, is famed for her touching portraits of mothers and children.
July 10, 2003
Television
Television: ‘The Artists’ Specials’ matches famous person with a child in stories of self-esteem.
May 11, 1999
A guided visit to “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman,” a retrospective exhibition on the renowned American Impressionist painter at the Art Institute of Chicago, is the primary event of a five-day travel and study tour to Chicago offered by UCLA Extension Nov. 12 through 16.
Sept. 5, 1998
“Breakfast in Bed,” a painting by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt owned by the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, is among 20 images on a new set of U.S. postage stamps.
Sept. 11, 1998
May 22, 2014