Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

Put a crayon in the chubby fist of a 5-year-old and the resulting drawings might only loosely resemble reality. Purple trees and blue dogs with what may or may not be wings. Everything out of ...

Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece *A Girl with a Pink and Black Hat* (1891) fully embodies the essence of the Impressionist master ...

Elizabeth Nourse, Self-Portrait, 1892.(Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts) Whether or not Paris was the “capital of the 19th century,” as it has sometimes been called, it really was the ...

For all of her boldness as the only American to be a member of the French Impressionists, Mary Cassatt is often typecast as a painter of (dull) domestic scenes. Her mostly male colleagues—now being ...

Part artist’s manifesto, part memoir, and part catty burn-book, Paul Gauguin’s Avant et après resurfaced several years ago after having been missing for a century. In the Courtauld Institute’s ...

What she does for a living is a little confusing. To call her a female impersonator conjures an image of a broadshouldered figure in 7-inch heels, cascading wig and skin-tight dress lip-syncing to ...