"Mother and Child (Baby Getting Up from His Nap)," Mary Cassatt, c. 1899

Y'all know Cassatt by now, the great American female Impressionist. She's most famous for her paintings of mothers and children, such as we see here.

The child is apparently a boy named Jules, who modeled for Cassatt many times. The identity of the mother is unknown. Cassatt was known for capturing the concepts of maternal affection and duty; here we have a well-dressed mother bathing her child and obviously engrossed in her task.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Make sure you listen to Art Slice’s “Mary Cassatt’s Lost Mural” episode! In addition to learning about an influential Impressionist painter on this awesome podcast, you’ll get to hear me provide a definition of an art term whilst enabling you to go get ice-cream.

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In 1877, #MaryCassatt became one of only three women, and the only American, ever to join the French Impressionists 💪

"In the Loge" (1878) was the first of Cassatt’s Impressionist paintings to be displayed in the United States.

"Young Thomas and His Mother," Mary Cassatt, 1893.

Pennsylvania-born Cassatt (1844-1926) should be familiar to us; I've featured her before and she's a very popular painter.

In the 1880s, Cassatt became focused on the theme of mothers and children, and produced many, now-familiar works in that genre. Young Thomas and his mother here were repeat models.

These paintings were generally tightly focused, and some felt that indicated a sort of cloistered life; I feel it was a reflection of the intimacy of the relationship between mother and child. Cassatt was not cloistered! She guided many wealthy American travelers to purchase works by her colleagues; it's said now that she's indirectly responsible for many prominent American museum collections.

From the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. (I've been there!)

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I have never before had one of the 10 most read articles at Broadstreetreview, where I do arts reporting, but this Year I had two! Woohoo! When I heard I was on the list, I figured, correctly, that it was this one, because who doesn't love MaryCassatt? And curator Jennifer Thompson is a delight to chat with.

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https://www.broadstreetreview.com/features/philadelphia-is-spending-the-summer-with-mary-cassatt?utm_source=campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20top%2010%20most-read%20BSR%20stories%20of%202024

Lucky San Francisco! Mary Cassatt at Work is now in your city! Here's a chat with Jennifer Thompson, curator in Philadelphia who put the exhibit together (and a few other Cassatt-centric folks)

Enjoy the show!

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https://www.broadstreetreview.com/features/philadelphia-is-spending-the-summer-with-mary-cassatt