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Mary Cassatt
Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings.
- GenresArt
95 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1988
About the author
Jay Roudebush
6 books9 followersJay grew up in a Navy family and traveled extensively when he was young. He retired from teaching in 2010, and now devotes much of his spare time to writing. He currently is working on his second ya novel, When We Were Gone Astray.
He is the author of Mary Cassatt, a monograph on the great American Impressionist, published by Crown Books in 1979.
He is the author of Mary Cassatt, a monograph on the great American Impressionist, published by Crown Books in 1979.
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October 17, 2018
Read for a Bingo Game with Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon group in a warm up to them the Big Weekend on 20th and 21st. Whoop Whoop Whoop. This book satisfied an Illustration option.
Also I have an appreciation of Cassat. About 20 or 25 years ago the local Art Musuem of South Texas, the museum hosted a large travelling collection of Impressionist paintings, many of US artists. Several of Mary Cassatt's paintings --Both smaller pastels and a few large oil paintings.
Me Mesermized.
The one that I still remember standing in front of quite a while: The Bath That painting is depicted here in this collection. I do not want to too much study the painting, talkkng about lines or light or texture--none of that. I want to feel the coolness of comfortableness of the room (Yes indicated by the green and the round wash bowl and rounded dresser.) I just wantto enjoy the calmness of the mother and child in a room mild enough in temp that calmness prevails and they two are quietly getting on with washing of the child's feet. I very much see --oh I am doing it--I am very much mesmerized by the wide green stripes of the mother's dress and the subtle green in the off-white stripes. I notice how the stripes of the mother's dress draw/wend my eyes towards the bottom of the paiting, towards Earth, groundedness. I am a colorist and have a very very basic art education. I can hardly get away from admiring Cassatt's use of color.
Cassatt Gets "Even" with Degas.
Degas her friend and mentor at times irritated Cassatt. One too many times he said something that zapped her feelings, something about how women cannot really really paint. So Cassatt intentionally hired a plain, okay ugly, little woman model for Girl Arranging Her Hair. Degas loved it all the days of his life!
Fine Art as Book Covers
In the 1990s famous paintings were sometimes used for book covers, sometimes maybe even for inspirations for novels. Some of Cassatt's work was also used. Works shown in this collection.
(I wanted to provide book cover links, but the link function is not working. May be temporary prob. So here is the best I can do for now.)
Painting: Woman Reading (Lydia Cassatt) 1878
Painting: Portrait of a Young Woman in Black
Worthwhile for the Someone who wants to begin to know about Cassatt/Someone who just wants to enjoy her art.
Also I have an appreciation of Cassat. About 20 or 25 years ago the local Art Musuem of South Texas, the museum hosted a large travelling collection of Impressionist paintings, many of US artists. Several of Mary Cassatt's paintings --Both smaller pastels and a few large oil paintings.
Me Mesermized.
The one that I still remember standing in front of quite a while: The Bath That painting is depicted here in this collection. I do not want to too much study the painting, talkkng about lines or light or texture--none of that. I want to feel the coolness of comfortableness of the room (Yes indicated by the green and the round wash bowl and rounded dresser.) I just wantto enjoy the calmness of the mother and child in a room mild enough in temp that calmness prevails and they two are quietly getting on with washing of the child's feet. I very much see --oh I am doing it--I am very much mesmerized by the wide green stripes of the mother's dress and the subtle green in the off-white stripes. I notice how the stripes of the mother's dress draw/wend my eyes towards the bottom of the paiting, towards Earth, groundedness. I am a colorist and have a very very basic art education. I can hardly get away from admiring Cassatt's use of color.
Cassatt Gets "Even" with Degas.
Degas her friend and mentor at times irritated Cassatt. One too many times he said something that zapped her feelings, something about how women cannot really really paint. So Cassatt intentionally hired a plain, okay ugly, little woman model for Girl Arranging Her Hair. Degas loved it all the days of his life!
Fine Art as Book Covers
In the 1990s famous paintings were sometimes used for book covers, sometimes maybe even for inspirations for novels. Some of Cassatt's work was also used. Works shown in this collection.
(I wanted to provide book cover links, but the link function is not working. May be temporary prob. So here is the best I can do for now.)
Painting: Woman Reading (Lydia Cassatt) 1878
Painting: Portrait of a Young Woman in Black
Worthwhile for the Someone who wants to begin to know about Cassatt/Someone who just wants to enjoy her art.
February 6, 2025
She is one of those artists whose work I think must suffer from being photos of a painting. There is a blandness to her art and to her life story that doesn't make for good reading. (Neither of these statements should be taken as me not liking her art.)
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