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Artist: Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Nationality: American
Born: Pittsburgh 1844
Died: Beauvais, France 1926
Bio: As the daughter of a well-do-to businessman, it was common place for young girls such Mary Cassatt to be encouraged to paint. Her parents move to Paris when she was 7 years old allowed her passion for art to flourish.
Cassatt was instrumental in bringing the works of the Impressionist movement to America. She was a close friend of Degas and exhibited alongside in 1879.
Much of her work is dedicated to the relationship between mother and child. The majority of Cassatt's works today are in American collections, while just a small number of paintings remain in France, where she worked.
Mary Cassatt died at the age of 86 at Château de Beaufresne and was buried in the family vault at nearby Mesnil-Theribus. |
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