Description - Motherhood and Family Life by Mary Cassatt
This volume displays 50 of Mary Cassatt's digitally restored paintings and sketches of "Motherhood and Family Life," in particular presenting the bond between child and mother. The eye-popping brilliance and vitality of the images leap off the page just as on the day she finished them.They include the following images, presented chronologically: Child Drinking Milk, 1868Children in a Garden, 1878Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878Mother Combing her Child's Hair, 1879A Woman About to Wash her Sleepy Child, 1880Mrs. Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren, 1880Mother and Child, 1880A Woman and a Child Seated in a Garden, 1881Susan Comforting the Baby, 1881Children Playing on the Beach, 1884Alexander Cassatt and his Son Robert Kelso Cassatt, 1885Mother's Goodnight Kiss, 1888Mathilde Holding a Baby Who Reaches Out to the Right, 1889Emmie and her Child, 1889The Child's Caress, 1890Mother and Child, 1890Baby's First Caress, 1891The Child's Bath (in the Japanese Style), 1893The Family, 1893Baby Reaching for an Apple, 1893The Child's Bath, 1893In the Garden, 1893The Boating Party, 1893-1894The Banjo Lesson, 1893-1894Summertime, 1894In the Park, 1894Maternal Caress, 1896Maternal Kiss, 1896Nurse and Child, 1896-1897The Barefoot Child, 1897Little Ann Sucking her Finger Embraced by her Mother, 1897Louise Nursing her Child, 1898Mother Playing with her Child, 1899Young Mother Sewing, 1900Sara Handing a Toy to the Baby, 1901Mother and Sara Admiring the Baby, 1901Reine LeFebre and Margot Before a Window, 1902Motherhood, 1902Young Mother and Two Children, 1905Motherhood, 1906Mother and Two Children, 1906Maternal Tenderness, 1908Children Playing with a Cat, 1908Boat, Bath, 1908Mother and Child in a Boat, 1909Auguste Reading to her Daughter, 1910The Crochet Lesson, 1913Mother Holding her Baby, 1914Mother and Child, 1914Baby Lying on his Mother's Lap Reaching to Hold a Scarf, 1914Note the more stylized beauty of the 1914 paintings: was this a result of a deliberate artistic shift or the effect of deteriorating eyesight which was soon to render Mary Cassatt nearly blind?The American-born artist Mary Cassatt was born into a well-to-do family, and she was able to travel to Europe early in her life, where artistic influences filled her formative years. At the age of 22, she moved to Paris. Women were not allowed into formal art schools, so she took private lessons. After a return to the United States in 1870-71 in which she had initial success (paralleling the time of the Franco-Prussian War), she returned to Paris and spent most of the rest of her life in France. She became an Impressionist, becoming a friend and colleague of Degas and acquainted with Renoir, Monet and Pissarro.
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