Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844.

When Mary Cassatt was little she told her mom that she wanted to be a painter.

Mary Cassatt’s occupation was an Impressionism painter.  She was a painter that when you look at it close it looks all sloppy and when you look at it from far back it blends into the landscape or portrait or still life.

Impressionism changed the art world in the last half of the 1800s. Paintings had to look real before impressionism.

Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and went to school at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  If Marry Cassatt didn’t go to this school she probably would not be this famous. This was a really good school to go to for Mary Cassatt if she wanted to be an artist.

Mary Cassatt mostly painted pictures of women and babies.  She painted mostly women and babies because she liked to paint people in natural poses and familiar settings.

When Mary Cassatt was older she moved to Paris and liked it a lot and decided to live there.

Mary Cassatt used oil paints to paint with. Other painters used water color paints but some still used oil paints.

Mary Cassatt displayed eleven works, including La Loge, in the Impressionist exhibit of 1879. La Loge is a famous painting by Mary Cassatt.

A trip to Egypt in 1910 impressed Cassatt with the beauty of it’s ancient art.

As of 2005 her, paintings have sold for $2.87 million.

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