A mother's love
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Mother Feeding Child
1898
medium-pastel on wove paper mounted on canvas
Movement-Impressionism
An avant-garde painter,pastelist,and printmaker Mary Cassatt occupies a unique place in the history of American art.Her early alliance with the French Impressionists established her reputation as one of the America's leading nineteenth century artists.The subject of this refined pastel is the one that Cassatt made famous-the intimate engagement of a young woman (often a mother) and a child.Working in series,like French colleagues,Cassatt embraced the medium of pastel throughout the 1880s and 1890s.Her large bold drawings are as ambitious as her paintings,but they incorporate and even more dazzling palette and greater spatial daring.This latter example is more resolved in form than some of her sketch-like compositions,if equally immediate in its aesthetic and emotional freshness
A mother's love
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Mother Feeding Child
1898
medium-pastel on wove paper mounted on canvas
Movement-Impressionism
An avant-garde painter,pastelist,and printmaker Mary Cassatt occupies a unique place in the history of American art.Her early alliance with the French Impressionists established her reputation as one of the America's leading nineteenth century artists.The subject of this refined pastel is the one that Cassatt made famous-the intimate engagement of a young woman (often a mother) and a child.Working in series,like French colleagues,Cassatt embraced the medium of pastel throughout the 1880s and 1890s.Her large bold drawings are as ambitious as her paintings,but they incorporate and even more dazzling palette and greater spatial daring.This latter example is more resolved in form than some of her sketch-like compositions,if equally immediate in its aesthetic and emotional freshness