MARY CASSATT
MARY CASSATT
Born May 22, 1844, Allegheny City, PA, USA
Died June 14, 1926, Paris, France
Self Portrait, circa 1878
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Enrolled at the age of 15, over her family’s objections, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, one of the few institutions at the time to accept women
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Impatient with the limitations put on female students, she arranged to study abroad, moving to Paris in 1866; women were not allowed to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, so she studied privately with master painters
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Eventually settled permanently in Paris; she was invited by artist Edward Degas to join the Impressionists, becoming one of only a few women, and rst American, to do so
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Is known for her portraits of women, whom she portrayed as intelligent and independent
Young Mother Sewing, 1900
Woman Reading in a Garden, 1880