“An exceptional example of the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s famed depictions of motherhood, Children Playing with a Dog presents the unconditional love and complex relationship between a mother and her two children with both psychological and stylistic finesse. While the Madonna and Child has a long historical precedent, Cassatt transformed the subject into her own signature theme….
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Mary Cassatt: Young Lady in a Loge Gazing to Right (1878-79)
“…As Paul Gauguin, the original owner of Young Lady in a Loge Gazing to Right, reflected after viewing another painting in the series, “Mlle Cassatt has as much charm, but she has more power” than her female contemporaries (as quoted in The Queen Bees: The Women Who Shaped America, New York, 1979, p. 117). It…
Cassatt, Capuçon, and Saint-Saëns
Hear More Website: https://www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de ∙ See More Tag: Mary Cassatt At Sunnyside Works by Mary Cassatt at Nationa Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Mary Cassatt at wikimedia commons Read More Mary Cassatt’s Pastels at the National Gallery Mary Cassatt at The Art Story Mary Cassatt at wikiwand Happy Friday! 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Mary Cassatt: Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880)
“Cassatt and her family spent the summer of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, about ten miles west of Paris. Ignoring the village’s historic landmarks in her art, Cassatt focused instead on the domestic environment. Here, she portrayed her elder sister, Lydia, fashionably dressed and insulated by a walled garden from any modern hurly-burly. Lydia is absorbed in…
Mary Cassatt: The Tea (1880)
“Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the theatre, tending children—fall within the normal routine for Cassatt’s sex and class. Yet the painter’s insistence upon representing such episodes from the modern world (even a sheltered segment of it), her dislike for narrative, and…
Ensemble Rhapsody: František Adam Míča, Oboe Quartet in C major
Hat Tip Thanks to Claudio Capriolo at La Regina Gioiosa Musica & Musica for introducing me to Ensemble Rhapsody in his post Quartetto con oboe. Hear More Ensemble Rhapsody at youtube Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Mary Cassatt: Mother and Two Children, 1906
“I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Edgar Degas when he saw one of Mary Cassatt’s pictures. David Lowe continues in American Heritage, At eight o’clock on the evening of June 14, 1926, a very old woman—blind and suffering from advanced diabetes—died in her chateau on the edge of the…
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