This painting is by Allegheny City–born Impressionist Mary Cassatt. Her beautiful works often feature the private lives of womenm both at home and in social settings.
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This portrait is related to a triptych mural that she designed for the Women's Building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The mural depicted women as accomplished thinkers, artists, and leaders in their own right.
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Cassatt's portrait is presented in context with her contemporaries—artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Childe Hassam—in the Scaife galleries. You can see it any day we're open.
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Detail of Mary Cassatt, Young Women Picking Fruit, 1891, Carnegie Museum of Art.
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