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Cassatt
[kuh-sat]
noun
Mary, 1845–1926, U.S. painter.
Cassatt
/ kəˈsæt /
noun
Mary. 1845–1926, US impressionist painter, who lived in France
Example Sentences
Not for him were the depictions of the lives and leisure of the wealthy or the bourgeoisie favored by Renoir, Cassatt and Morisot.
Work by George Bellows, James Van Der Zee, Mary Cassatt and Robert Henri adorn the walls, and there is a table ready to receive a Tiffany lamp.
Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.
The emphasis on men’s daily lives is very unusual, given the prominence of women as subject matter in scores of paintings of the period by Manet, Degas, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt and more of his Impressionist friends and colleagues in Paris.
In the epic story of modern art, Mary Cassatt has been cast as the premier painter of mothers and babies.
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