The French-American painter Mary Cassatt did not think much of Mother’s Day. She was more concerned with women’s suffrage, an issue she strongly supported and occasionally slipped into her paintings.

For all of her boldness as the only American to be a member of the French Impressionists, Mary Cassatt is often typecast as a painter of (dull) domestic scenes. Her mostly male colleagues—now being ...

''Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,'' on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, is one of more than 130 works on exhibit at the ...

The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later. By Deborah Solomon The writer, an art critic, is ...

Mary Cassatt’s Barefoot Child was created in 1897, during what art historians refer to as her “mature period” that spanned from 1887 to 1899. Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, but ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1877–78), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (89.5 x 129.9 cm); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (all images courtesy Philadelphia ...

Working from Paris, she imbued her paintings of domestic life with an American sense of freedom and sheer fun. For years, I had mixed feelings about Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). After seeing the new ...

In the ranks of the 19th-century Paris avant-garde, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was at once an anomaly and a sensation-an American In the ranks of the 19th-century Paris avant-garde, Mary Cassatt ...

Poor Mary Cassatt. She spent most of her headstrong life as an independent woman abroad, working alongside the bad boys of the Paris avant-garde, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro. But we tend to think ...

For centuries, the Madonna and child was one of the primary subjects of Western painting. Nearly every Italian Renaissance painter and Dutch master from Bellini to Van Eyck immortalized this ...

I’ve always thought of Mary Cassatt’s paintings as pretty, colorful and sweet — a shiny celebration of mothers, children and upper-class women of the late 19th century. I thought it was cool that ...

Historically, the subjects of Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist paintings—women and children who sit in gardens, lounge in armchairs and come together for afternoon tea—have sometimes been viewed as ...