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American1844–1926

Mary Cassatt

An American who made her career in Paris and the only American to show with the Impressionists. Degas invited her to join them, and she became known for scenes of women and children.

Sources: WikipediaBritannicaSmithsonian American Art Museum

A life in paintings

  1. 1844
    Born
  3. 1854
    Japan opens its ports

    A treaty with the United States ends more than two centuries of Japanese seclusion. Within a few years Japanese prints are reaching the West, where their flat colour and bold cropping change how painters compose.

    Sources: Wikipedia: Convention of KanagawaWikipedia: Japonisme
  5. 1877
    Worked with Edgar DegasParis

    Degas invited Cassatt to exhibit with the Impressionists. Their studios were a five-minute walk apart, he often looked in to give her advice, and she frequently posed for him.

    Source: Wikipedia
  6. 1878
  8. 1880
  10. 1886
    The last Impressionist exhibition

    Seurat shows a huge picture made of dots, and the group splits over it.

    Sources: Wikipedia: ImpressionismWikipedia: Georges Seurat
  12. 1908
  14. 1926
    Died

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Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913

Armory Show (1913)

The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.

Source: Wikipedia

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National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Petit Palais

Paris

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