Gustave Geffroy в 1894 г говорил о ней, как об одной из трех великих женщин "les trois grandes dames" импрессионисток наряду с Marie Bracquemond и Berthe Morisot.
Вот несколько интересных фактов из жизни этой женщины:
-She was a cosmopolitan person (born in America, she spent great part of her life in France) and traveled for many different countries, painting and learning.
-Her father was a stockbroker and her mother came from a banking family. They objected Mary became an artist, but she was and independent woman and decided to live of her work.
-Impatient with the slow instruction and the attitude of the male students and teachers, she decided to study the old masters on her own.
-In Paris, in the Salon, criticized the conventional taste of public.
-In Spain (Madrid and Sevilla) was able to capture the strong light while in France painted with smooth colors.
Mary Cassatt changing style
-She is a master painting the intimacy of a mother with its child.
-She joined the Impressionist group but at the end of her life was able to change the style, with large stains and personal perspectives.
-Diagnosed with diabetes, rheumatism and cataracts in 1911, she did not stop painting.
-In 1915, almost blind, she showed eighteen works in an exhibition supporting the women’s suffrage.
-Only Egypt knocked her (for a while): Ancient Egipt Art ‘is surely the greatest Art the past has left us … how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.
