Cassatt, Mary
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| Birthname | Mary Stevenson Cassatt | ||||
| born on | 22 May 1844 at 23:55 (= 11:55 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 40n26, 80w0 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m80w0 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   02°07'   07°02 Asc. 11°52'
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Biography
American artist of the Impressionist school, famous for warm and affectionate mother-and-child studies done in a bright and original manner. A master of the tender touch, her portrayals of gentle kisses are serene and voluptuous.
In 1866, at 21, Cassatt fled her well-bred and affluent Pennsylvania family to paint and study painting in Paris. A stipend from her parents only enhanced her determination to focus exclusively on painting. She traveled the French countryside, painting peasants and local people, rejecting the fashionable trends in painting and disregarding the tyranny of the Paris Salon. After some taste of success, along with a measure of criticism, Cassatt returned to Pennsylvania to live. Finding no satisfaction in her homeland, she returned to Europe, this time to Italy, where her career and her reputation were established.
A wealthy spinster, her life was focused on art. Biographers conclude that the closest she came to a lasting romance was her friendship with Degas, who had an influence on her painting. Nonetheless, she loved children, and often used her brother's children as models.
An invalid in her later years, she was almost blind after 1910. She died on 14 June 1926 in Le Mesniel-Theribus, France.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Pissarro, Camille (born 10 July 1830)
- friend relationship with Degas, Edgar (born 19 July 1834)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Chaplin, Charles Joshua (born 8 June 1825)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Couture, Thomas (born 21 December 1815)
- (has as) teacher relationship with Gérôme, Jean-Léon (born 11 May 1824)
- compare to chart of Morisot, Berthe (born 14 January 1841). Notes: "Les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism
- role played of/by Brenneman, Amy (born 22 June 1964). Notes: 1999 TV film "Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist"
Events
- Family : Change residence 1866 (Left home to study art in France, age 21)
- Health : Medical diagnosis 1910 (Became blind)
Source Notes
LMR quotes her dad's family record given in an article in Vogue 2/15/1954.
Biography: Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Mary Cassatt, A Life," Villard, 1994.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Eyes (Vision loss after 1910)
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged (Affluent family)
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances (Brother)
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Inheritance (Enough to live on and travel)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 82)
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (Painter)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- 1844 births
- Birthday 22 May
- Birthplace Pittsburgh, PA (US)
- Sun 2 Gemini
- Moon 7 Leo
- Asc 11 Aquarius
- 1926 deaths
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Eyes
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Inheritance
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
