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Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (–)
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Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella, Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed." | |
| Born | Mary Stevenson Cassatt ()May 22, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, () (aged&#;82) near Paris, France |
| Education | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Couture |
| Known&#;for | Painting, printmaking |
| Movement | Impressionism |
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, &#;&#; June 14, )[1] was an American painter and printmaker.[2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy as o