The pensive reader
Nurse reading to a little girl
Woman reading in a garden
Auguste reading to her daughter, 1910
The garden reading
Reading to the children
Young girl reading, 1908
Skech for Francoise in a round backed chair reading, 1908
The reader (Lydia Cassatt), 1878
Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper
Portrait of a lady reading Le Figaro
The reading lesson, 1901
Young lady reading
Reading the book
Country living
Portrait of Alexander J. Cassat and his son Robert Kelso Cassatt
The artist's father reading, 1883
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
born May 22. 1844 in Allegheny City (Pennsylvania), USA
died June 14, 1926 (82) in Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, France
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You may want to check the source of "Young mother in the garden." I have seen it attributed to Helen Galloway McNicoll, a Canadian painter. Nevertheless, I am enjoying perusal of your blog!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous, you are totally right. I've deleted the artwork here.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your take on women in paintings reading, absorbed, sharing the word with children. There is another look at this type of art work, women who are not being challenged, or women who are in their 'place.' It was mostly men who painted women, like Impressionist Guy Rose, and they gave their women a vapid, sort of not connected appearance, a decoration to the painting. Certainly not someone who might cause any undo scuffle. Mary Cassett, along with other female artists of her time, had to paint subjects deemed appropriate for their cultural moment in history. Love the paintings, mostly peaceful and nurturing, but should we ask why?
ReplyDelete@Linda Loveland Reid. Thank you for your interesting e-mail. I think you're right that the paintings are reflecting the time in which they were created. Where there are reading men in it, they are mostly reading in the paper or studying. Nowadays we expect different paintings where women and men are more equally seen. Unfortunately reading people in art are more rare nowadays in art. So a good comparison with for example the 19e century is not really possible.
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