Mary Cassatt

by Linda Cernak, J.T. Morrow (Illustrations)

Introduces Mary Cassatt as one of the important American Impressionist painters by exploring the techniques she used to show expression and feelings in her subjects.

24 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2014

Reviews

[Chanelle Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The genre of the book is biographies. Mary Cassatt was awarded the Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy; The Art Institute of Chicago awarded her with the N.W Harris prize for her painting A Caress in 1904. The age range for the book is nine to twelve years old. The book is biography of Mary Cassatt; she talks about how she became a new style artist, becoming an artist, making her own style and the impressionists within. The book display a lot of women photos that was painted by her. I rated the book at a four stars. The author shows you a glimpse of the amazing American Impressionist painters Mary Cassatt and how she was able to paint pictures off the wall and pictures of live people. The book seemed as if the painter was a feminist because her text was related strongly towards women and she painted a lot of women photos. The text were actual a readable debate of in what way Mary Cassatt painting mirror women’s lives in the late centuries. Certain text used language that was unclear to readers for example (chateau) which is a castle or country estate in France. The illustrations were awesome some pages had black and white, smeared blended colors and bright clear paintings. This book would be appealing to a young child that wants to become an artist. The book gives them detail history of a woman who explored all areas of art and chose to create her own image as a painter. The book Mary Cassatt would be great to use during career week. I would set up a station called the life of Mary Cassatt I would have photo images hanging, different books from her, large drawing paper on easels, and variety of markers. The children would be able to become an artist of the day like Mary Cassatt.