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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you missed last fall’s fabulous Mary Cassatt exhibition at the Art Institute, or simply would like to revisit such prized Cassatt works as “Woman in a Loge” (1879) or “Portrait of a Little Girl ...

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 ...

Reporting from Washington — In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that ...

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.

When we meet Mary Cassatt in playwright Chris Ward’s new production, The Independents, playing now off Broadway at the Jerry Orbach Theater, she is at her studio awaiting a visit from Edgar Degas. A ...

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 ...

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 ...