Mary Cassatt

Born

May 22, 1844

Died

June 14, 1926 (aged 82)

Known as

painter, printmaker, graphic artist, photographer, etcher

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

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