Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1877–78), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (89.5 x 129.9 cm); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (all images courtesy Philadelphia ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Mary Cassatt at Work' is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 25 years. "She's often known as a painter, but in fact, as the exhibition reveals, she ...

Mary Cassatt’s pastel portrait ‘Sara in a Bonnet’ (C. 1901). (Courtesy SBMA, Bequest of Leslie L. Ridley-Tree) Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art lecture series Art Matters will present a talk ...

Color plates -- Picking flowers in a field -- Little girl in a blue armchair -- Lydia in a loge, wearing a pearl necklace -- Lydia leaning on her arms, seated in a loge -- Woman and child driving -- A ...

Mary Cassatt captured the essence of Gilded Age femininity in her beguiling portraits of mothers with infants and young girls with pets in genteel domestic settings. Cassatt also printed mirror images ...

AS a painter, Mary Cassatt, an American who showed regularly with the French Impressionists in the late 19th century, has her detractors who complain she wasn't as daring or innovative as her ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

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Cassatt gave the three well-loved, wooden boxes of pastels to a friend's 10-year-old granddaughter, who later recalled: "I wasted lots of them on... Now That's An Artifact: See Mary Cassatt's Pastels ...