1844–1926 · American · Impressionism
Mary Cassatt Art Prints
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was the only American formally embraced by the French Impressionists, invited into their exhibitions by Edgar Degas in 1879. Working from Paris for five decades, she built her reputation on intimate scenes of mothers, children, and women at leisure, rendered with the loose brushwork of Impressionism and the flattened, cropped compositions she borrowed from Japanese woodblock prints.
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About Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
1880
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Died 1926
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1844 to a wealthy family, Cassatt studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before moving permanently to Paris in 1874. She trained by copying Old Masters in the Louvre and studying under academic painters, but her outlook shifted decisively in 1877 when Edgar Degas invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists, a group then still considered radical outsiders.
Cassatt exhibited in four of the eight Impressionist shows held between 1879 and 1886, working alongside Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Berthe Morisot. She specialized in domestic subjects — mothers bathing children, women reading, families in theater boxes — treating everyday female experience with the same seriousness her male peers gave to café and street scenes. Her color drypoints of the early 1890s absorbed lessons from the Japanese ukiyo-e prints she saw at a landmark 1890 Paris exhibition.
Beyond painting, Cassatt shaped American taste: she advised wealthy friends like Louisine Havemeyer on acquiring Old Master and Impressionist works, collections later donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cataracts ended her painting career around 1914, though she lived until 1926. Today she is recognized, alongside Morisot and Marie Bracquemond, as one of the three women central to French Impressionism.
Mary Cassatt is part of our Impressionism collection.
Questions about Mary Cassatt prints
- What are the Mary Cassatt prints made of?
- Every Mary Cassatt print is printed to order in the USA. Fine art prints use 340gsm cold press fine art paper, 100% cotton rag and acid-free, with archival inks. Canvases use 360gsm archival canvas, stretched over solid wood stretcher bars.
- What size Mary Cassatt print should I choose?
- It depends on the wall. As a rule of thumb, aim for artwork roughly two-thirds the width of the furniture it hangs above — check each artwork's page for a size guide against the original dimensions.
- Canvas, framed, or fine art print?
- Canvas and framed canvas suit statement walls and gift-giving, and arrive ready to hang. Fine art prints on cotton rag paper are a lower-cost way to try a piece before committing to a larger format.
- How long does delivery take?
- Every print is made to order and arrives within 8 business days, often sooner. If it arrives damaged or faulty, we replace or refund it within 90 days.