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Birth
1844 (Allegheny City, Pennsylvania)
Death
1926 (Oise, France)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania / France
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mother-child portrait and genre painting, etching
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New York Armory Show of 1913
Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
Women Artists
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Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt is best known for her mother and
child compositions and also for her color prints, based on Japanese
woodblock techniques and that combined drypoint, etching, and
aquatint. From 1890, she had her own printing press at her home.
Born
in 1844 in Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, she
was recognized by the turn of the century as one of the preeminent
painters both of her native country and of France, which she made her
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