Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Edited with text by Caroline Corbeau Parsons, Erica E. Hirshler, Sarah Moulden, Anne Robbins. Text by Lionel Britten, Christophe Charle, Laura Corey, Nicole Georgopulos, Kimberly Jones, Tatsuya Saito, Valérie Sueur, Jennifer Thompson, Luke Uglow.
Published with Musée d'Orsay/Éditions Hazan/National Portrait Gallery, London.
“I can live alone and love to work,” painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt said of herself. This publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, sketch a new portrait of the beloved artist, emphasizing the notion of independence that underpinned both her life and her art. Cassatt forged a path of her own. Not only was she the only American to exhibit with the Independents (as the Impressionists were then called), but she was also a savvy player in the art market, a landowner, an innovative printmaker, a painter of large public murals and a strong supporter of women’s suffrage. These characteristics are fully evident in Cassatt’s work, which boldly proclaims that the everyday lives of women—on the street, at the theater, in the home, in nature—are suitable subjects for modern art. Drawing on unpublished letters and hitherto unexplored French sources, this book provides new perspectives on the artist’s career. Thematic essays take a fresh technical look at Cassatt’s subjects, examining how she deliberately employed a lack of finish to mark her own presence and creative power. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) moved to Paris in 1868 and would live there until her death. Frustrated with the inequity and fickleness of the Paris Salon, she accepted Edgar Degas’ invitation to exhibit with the Impressionists in 1877. She became one of three women and the only American to belong to the group.
Published by DelMonico Books. Edited with introduction and text by Shalini Le Gall, Justin McCann. Foreword by Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Justine De Young, Daniel Harkett.
Published with Colby College Museum of Art.
This book examines the radical experimentation and innovation of one of the finest and most creative printmakers of the 19th century. A collaborator with the Impressionists Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) made some of her greatest artistic achievements as a printmaker. Her prints reveal the personal and introspective side of an American artist who was at the center of the French art world. Addressing themes of creativity, domesticity, motherhood, fashion, intimacy and privacy, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt brings readers into close contact with an artist who used printmaking to consider issues of identity and selfhood in a changing modern world. This publication, which investigates the artist’s exploration of the medium over a period of two decades, also features an original pattern design by contemporary designer Frances MacLeod.
Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt