Mary_Cassatt

Mary Cassatt An American painter born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, Mary Stevenson Cassatt dedicated most of her social life to becoming one of America's most interesting artists. Growing up in Philadelphia, she was the fifth child of Katherine Kelso Johnston and Robert Simpson Cassatt, whom was a real estate and investment broker. Her upbringing was fairly distinctive for the era and her upbringing, at school, she prepared for life as a wife and mother, which included lessons in how to run a home as well as in being a genteel rebel of pastimes as embroidery, music, sketching, and painting. Mary Cassatt’s parents moved to Europe for several years during the 1850s. In 1860, Mary who was now sixteen, enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In spite of the fact that women, especially those of the upper class, were discouraged from pursuing careers, she wanted to be a professional artist. By 1862, however, she had grown frustrated with the program's slow pace and insufficient course offerings. She also resented the condescending attitude of the male teachers and most of her fellow students. She concluded that the best way for her to learn about art cassatt, art, paris, mary, painting, child, after, work, paintings, one, little, life, degas, cassatt’s, two, salon, mother, impressionists, europe, career, accepted, years, wanted, strong, left, home, girl, began, artist, american, works, women, role, portraits, philadelphia, painted