Transcript Mary Cassatt - Patterson Elementary School

Self Portrait, 1878
Mary Cassatt
The American Impressionist
Created for Patterson Art Awareness
By Liz Beutel
HER Early LIFE
 Born in Pennsylvania in 1844
 Was 4th of 5 children in family
 Traveling with family was part of
education
 At 11 years old she saw the great
artists of France and their work at
the Paris World’s Fair in 1855
 She began Art Academy of
Pennsylvania at 15 years old
 7 years later she moved to Paris,
France to to teach herself by
copying the old Masters at the
Louvre museum
Self Portrait, 1880
National Portrait Gallery,
Washington , D.C.
Artist FRIENDS
Remember this artist from
last month’s art awareness?
Stage Rehearsal by Edgar Degas, 18781879
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Impressionists
Art Show!
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre, 1879
by Edgar Degas
Her STYLE
The way she could paint the tenderness
of mother and child was amazing since
she never had her own children.
Little Girl in a Blue Arm Chair by Mary
Cassatt , 1878
You can see The Bath in person at
the Art Institute of Chicago!
The Bath by Mary Cassatt,
1891-92, Oil on Canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
The SCIENCE of
LIGHT
The Impressionists were mostly
concerned with capturing the
effects of sunlight on colors and
would often paint outdoors.
Can you see which sister was
painted with the most light? How
could you tell?
The girl on the left has most of her
face lighter peach almost yellow,
while the sister on the right has
darker peach on her face.
The AMERICAN Role Model
The Boating Party
Oil on Canvas, Mary Cassatt , 1893/4
By the 1890’s she was back in
New York and Exhibiting her
art in Galleries.
This was her busiest time and
was a role model for women
and American artists since she
was the only woman and
American that was part of the
French Impressionism
movement.
The PASTEL Palette
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in the
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blues you
and see
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sheets.
• yellow,
The Impressionists worked with
• peach,
soft pastel colors.
• tan,
• pink,
• grey
Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt, 1897
HER Later LIFE
 Mary was a skilled artist; she
painted, worked with pastels and
printmaking as well
 By 70 years old her health was
failing and she was almost blind
 Mary Cassatt died in 1926 at 82
years old in France
 She has left a legacy of proud
American female artistry
 Recently her painting the Boating
Party was featured on the Great
American’s Postage Stamp Series
 Cassatt’s paintings have sold for as
much as $4.0 million a piece
Photograph of Mary Cassatt