Tag: Mary Cassatt
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The vulnerability of love
Florence Gelo Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Breakfast in Bed, Mary Cassatt, 1897, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation. Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. On Thanksgiving Day, I watch my niece Jenn with her seven-month-old daughter Laila playing…
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Painter, interrupted: Mary Cassatt and illness
Christoper Walker Bielsko-Biala, Poland Self-portrait titled Portrait of the Artist, 1878, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The year is 1868, and the twenty-two year-old Mary Cassatt has had her first painting, The Mandolin Player, accepted by the famous Paris Salon. The painting is in the realist style and is reminiscent of Rembrandt’s 1659 Self-Portrait. The background…