United States / France · 1844–1926
Mary Cassatt
The only American invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists, best known for intimate studies of mothers and children.
- Intimate
- Serene
- Labor & Domesticity
Fun fact
She advised wealthy American collectors on what to buy, which is a major reason so many Impressionist paintings hang in U.S. museums today.
How she made it
Pastel and oil laid on in dry, hatched strokes that leave the toned paper showing. Her prints combine drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint printed à la poupée, inking one plate in several colours at once, a method she reverse-engineered from Japanese woodblocks.
- Work
- The Child's Bath, 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago