Mary Cassatt was the only American to exhibit her work in an exhibit of the original group of Impressionist Artists, including such masters as Degas, Renoir and Monet. Cassatt said that she "hated conventional art" and when invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit with this group of independent artists in an exhibit of non-academic art she was overjoyed. Female Impressionists were rare, as were American Impressionists.
Answer 2: trying to answer the question which the above does not:
There is usually one and the same answer to those questions 'Why did XXX become an artist?' Because they felt they had the talent and the urge. It is as simple as that!
Yes! she did.
Either oil paint or pastels.
Mary Cassatt painted The Boating Party between 1893-94
Her birth name is Mary Stevenson Cassatt.
She was not the first to do anything. She was not the first to paint her favorite subject 'Mother and Child', but she may have been the first to paint so many versions of it.
Yes Mary Cassatt did have a job, her job is to paint. It is pretty obvious.
Either oil paint or pastels.
No, he did not.
Yes! she did.
Either oil paint or pastels.
circa 1901
She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art.
Oil paint, watercolor, pastels.
Mary Cassatt painted The Boating Party between 1893-94
She never did, as far as we know.
Her birth name is Mary Stevenson Cassatt.
From 1911 her eyesight deteriorated and from 1914 she could not paint any more.