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Mary Cassatt : a life / Nancy Mowll Mathews.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998Description: ix, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300077548
  • 9780300077544
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.4 22
LOC classification:
  • ND237.C3 M28 1998
Contents:
Background and early education (1844-1865) -- Studies in Europe (1866-1870) -- Becoming professional (1870-1874) -- Changing direction (1875-1878) -- Impressionism (1879-1886) -- Her prime (1886-1893) -- American connections (1894-1899) -- "The most eminent of living American women painters" (1900-1910) -- Hard times (1911-1926) -- The historical Cassatt.
Summary: One of few women Impressionists, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) had a life of paradoxes: American born, she lived and worked in France; a classically trained artist, she preferred the company of radicals; never married, she painted exquisite and beloved portraits of mothers and children. This book provides new insight into the personal life and artistic endeavors of this extraordinary woman.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 759.4 CAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A168427B

Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and index.

Background and early education (1844-1865) -- Studies in Europe (1866-1870) -- Becoming professional (1870-1874) -- Changing direction (1875-1878) -- Impressionism (1879-1886) -- Her prime (1886-1893) -- American connections (1894-1899) -- "The most eminent of living American women painters" (1900-1910) -- Hard times (1911-1926) -- The historical Cassatt.

One of few women Impressionists, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) had a life of paradoxes: American born, she lived and worked in France; a classically trained artist, she preferred the company of radicals; never married, she painted exquisite and beloved portraits of mothers and children. This book provides new insight into the personal life and artistic endeavors of this extraordinary woman.

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