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Julie Diehl and Julie Thayer Vehr with Mary Cassatt’s Eddy Cassatt (1875) in the National Gallery of Art’s painting conservation studio. The painting is a gift from the family of Col. Edward Buchanan ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Mary Cassatt at Work' is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 25 years. "She's often known as a painter, but in fact, as the exhibition reveals, she ...

History hasn’t typically interpreted Edgar Degas as a feminist, but the French painter’s relationship with American artist Mary Cassatt—the subject of the show “Degas/Cassatt,” opening May 11 at the ...

Aetna for the first time is sponsoring an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, part of the Connecticut insurer’s strategy to appeal to women and raise its profile in the nation’s capital. The ...

Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...

In 1874, a 19-year-old Louisine Waldron Elder was studying at the Madame Del Sarte’s boarding school in Paris when she crossed paths with 30-year-old Mary Stevenson Cassatt. Despite their age ...

When the National Gallery of Art underwent renovations a few years ago, curator Kimberly Jones took down a painting by Mary Cassatt. The 1878 masterpiece, “Little Girl in a Blue Armchair,” was looking ...

Painters Mary Cassatt and Helen McNicoll belonged to different generations and apparently never met, but “Cassatt-McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds,” a new exhibition opening on May 31 at the ...

From the evidence of her pictures, the subtitle to the National Gallery in Washington’s show “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman” refers more to the artist’s choice of profession than of subject matter.