Mary Cassatt (1884-1926)
Mary Cassatt is one of America's most famous women artists. Against her father's
wishes, Cassatt moved to Paris, France to paint, study and exhibit with other
Impressionists. She is most famous for her paintings of women doing everyday
activities such as bathing a child, writing letters or drinking tea.
In
this painting, The Bath, Cassatt shows a mother bathing her child.
Like fellow artists, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot,
Cassatt liked to surprise us with an unexpected viewpoint. In this painting,
you can imagine you are standing looking down at the mother and child.
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