Mary Cassatt’s prints and paintings demonstrated her technique as well as her incisive evocations of the lives and experiences of women from the late-19th-century era.Mary Cassatt the artist’s flexibility contributed to her professional reputation at a period when few females were considered as competent painters.
Cassatt commenced with her two years of education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1860 when she was 16 years old. In 1865, she requested permission from her parents to pursue her artistic instruction overseas.
From 1879 until 1886, Cassatt exhibited alongside the Impressionists in Paris, and in 1886, she was featured in the debut significant exhibit of the Impressionism movement in America.
Cassatt’s greatest visible impact might be her effect on American collectors who purchased her work and the art of her European colleagues and eventually gave it to museums.