2005 Vintage Mary Cassatt Impressionist Art Book

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Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) was an American Impressionist artist of the late-19th century She lived much of her life … Read more Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926) was an American Impressionist artist of the late-19th century She lived much of her life in France and exhibited with such artists as Monet, Pissarro, and her close friend French, artist Edgar Degas. Cassatt often created portraits of women and portrayals of mothers and children caught in everyday moments associated with the home. Griselda Pollock examines the work of Mary Cassatt and provides 85 reproductions of her early work.

Pollock looks at one of America's outstanding artistic talents, gauging the wide variety of influences which shaped her career, from her commitment in her early oils and pastels to both the techniques of the Old Masters and to modernist ideas through to her later interest in the methods of Japanese printmaking."--Jacket.


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