Mary Cassatt was an astute, versatile and acumen American printmaker and painter as implied by Broude (2000) and Saini (2013). She is widely acknowledged as a prolific and leading artist of the Impression movement together with Berthe Morisot and Marie Bracquemond. Cassatt is admired and distinguished as the greatest female painter and printmaker of her time. As an artist, Cassatt delved into paintings that depicted women involved in day-to-day activities and having intimacy with their children. Her paintings were profoundly influenced by Japanese art. Cassatt established herself as an artist with immense interest in studying social and private lives of women which is consistently evident in her paintings (Saini, 2013). Cassatt was born into a wealthy
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Typically, in mid-19th century, Pittsburg gassed little of solid citizens than the underwriter Robert Simpson Cassatt, and Katherine Johnston his wife. According to Mathews (1998), Mary Cassatt was born on 22 May 18844 as one of seven children in Cassatt and Johnston’s family, however, two of her siblings died in their infancy. When Marry was five years old, her family embarked on travel in Europe. Mary Cassatt while in Europe developed profound passion for painting and drawing however, her family vehemently objected to her thoughts of training to become a professional artist. They ridiculed and discouraged not to pursue or even consider painting as a career. Upon returning to America, the Cassatt’s settled in Philadelphia, which was the second largest city in America those years. Mary was passionate about painting and drawing and at the age of sixteen, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. Mary found herself one of the few female students pursuing art at the school however, unlike her classmate, Mary was the only female student who passionately took painting as a noble
Typically, in mid-19th century, Pittsburg gassed little of solid citizens than the underwriter Robert Simpson Cassatt, and Katherine Johnston his wife. According to Mathews (1998), Mary Cassatt was born on 22 May 18844 as one of seven children in Cassatt and Johnston’s family, however, two of her siblings died in their infancy. When Marry was five years old, her family embarked on travel in Europe. Mary Cassatt while in Europe developed profound passion for painting and drawing however, her family vehemently objected to her thoughts of training to become a professional artist. They ridiculed and discouraged not to pursue or even consider painting as a career. Upon returning to America, the Cassatt’s settled in Philadelphia, which was the second largest city in America those years. Mary was passionate about painting and drawing and at the age of sixteen, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. Mary found herself one of the few female students pursuing art at the school however, unlike her classmate, Mary was the only female student who passionately took painting as a noble