Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Katherine Cassatt, educated and very well read, had a profound influence on her daughter.

Cassatt saw that works by female artists were often dismissed with contempt unless the artist had a friend or protector on the jury, and she would not flirt with jurors to curry favor.

She had quarrels with Sartain, who thought Cassatt too outspoken and self-centered, and eventually they parted.

They already had one female member, artist Berthe Morisot, who became Cassatt ’ s friend and colleague.

Cassatt admired Degas, whose pastels had made a powerful impression on her when she encountered them in an art dealer's window in 1875.

Although Degas had no formal pupils, he greatly influenced several important painters, most notably Jean-Louis Forain, Mary Cassatt, and Walter Sickert ; his greatest admirer may have been Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

They had a great influence on many artists, notably Édouard Manet, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Félix Vallotton and Mary Cassatt.

Although the American painter Mary Cassatt had inspired many, Cassatt had had to move permanently to France to get serious recognition for her work.

Henri had a brother, Johnny, and was a distant cousin of the noted American painter Mary Cassatt.

By 1999, he had almost finished passing the task of creating Shoe onto Cassatt, Susie MacNelly and Brookins.

Hallowell then recommended the young academic painter Mary Fairchild Macmonnies and the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt to do the two murals and after their initial rejection of the contracts, the women only had a number of months to complete the murals and have them shipped to Chicago.

It was only later revealed that at the time, both the C & O and the N & W were essentially under the common control of the even larger Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and New York Central Railroad ( NYC ), whose leaders, Alexander Cassatt and William Vanderbilt respectively, had secretly entered into a " community of interests " pact.

Sarah Hallowell and Bertha Palmer had commissioned two large murals Primitive Women and Modern Women from Mary Fairchild Macmonnies and Mary Cassatt respectively, for each end of the Women's Building, but Wheeler complemented these large works with smaller murals by her daughter, Dora Wheeler Keith, Rosina Emmet Sherwood and Lydia Field Emmett as well as two by Amanda Brewster Sewell and Lucia Fairchild.

Pissarro, Degas, and American impressionist Mary Cassatt self-published a journal of their original prints in the late 1870s, which contained a large group of their own fine etchings.

Degas invited Mary Cassatt to display her work in the 1879 exhibition, but he also caused dissension by insisting on the inclusion of Jean-François Raffaëlli, Ludovic Lepic, and other realists who did not represent Impressionist practices, causing Monet in 1880 to accuse the Impressionists of " opening doors to first-come daubers ".

Edgar Degas, Portrait of Miss Cassatt, Seated, Holding Cards, c. 1876 – 1878, oil on canvas

When Europeans saw them, however, they became a major source of inspiration for Impressionist, Cubist, and Post-Impressionist artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others.

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, founded in 1976, focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, as well as pieces by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain.

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 051. jpg | Portrait of Miss Cassatt, Seated, Holding Cards, 1876 – 1878

Now a museum, its 19 rooms hold a nationally-recognized collection of Impressionist paintings by such masters as Manet, Monet, Whistler, Degas and Cassatt.

Artists who were influenced by Japanese art include: Arthur Wesley Dow, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Renoir, James McNeill Whistler ( Rose and silver: La princesse du pays de porcelaine, 1863 – 64 ), Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Bertha Lum, Will Bradley, Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, the sisters Frances and Margaret Macdonald, as well as architects Edward W. Godwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Stanford White, and ceramicists Edmond Lachenal and Taxile Doat.

Jeffrey Meyers, for example, in his book Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt, opines that Manet's Olympia " boldly alluded to another masterpiece, Goya's Naked Maja.

Since 1935, Tacoma Art Museum has built a permanent collection that includes work from world-renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, and Andrew Wyeth.

The work of thousands of artists has been exhibited in the Carnegie International, including that of Winslow Homer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and William Kentridge.

Cassatt grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education ; she spent 5 years in Europe and visited many of the capitals, including London, Paris, and Berlin.

Cassatt, on the other hand, would continue to work in the traditional manner, submitting works to the Salon for over ten years, with increasing frustration.

The History Of The Pennsylvania Railroad ; Bison Books Group 1988 ; ISBN 0-517-63351-5, p. 78 – 88 The Cassatt years.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

* Mary Cassatt ( American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions ) ( 1844 – 1926 )

Cassatt augmented her artistic training with daily copying in the Louvre ( she obtained the required permit, which was necessary to control the " copyists ", usually low-paid women, who daily filled the museum to paint copies for sale ).

Cassatt even considered giving up art, as she was determined to make an independent living.

After completing her commission for the archbishop, Cassatt traveled to Madrid and Seville, where she painted a group of paintings of Spanish subjects, including Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla ( 1873, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ).

Out of her distress and self-criticism, Cassatt decided that she needed to move away from genre paintings and onto more fashionable subjects, in order to attract portrait commissions from American socialites abroad, but that attempt bore little fruit at first.

The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

Several important painters who are considered American spent much of their lives in Europe, notably Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, and John Singer Sargent, all of whom were influenced by French Impressionism.

* Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d ' honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.

Although he did not find French Impressionism to his liking, he agreed in 1903 to buy two examples from Mary Cassatt, including Monet's Springtime.

His scenes of Parisian life, his off-center compositions, his experiments with color and form, and his friendship with several key Impressionist artists — most notably Mary Cassatt and Édouard Manet — all relate him intimately to the Impressionist movement.

Her vocal advocacy for the Impressionist movement helped to make it possible for other American Impressionists like Mary Cassatt to gain the exposure and acceptance they needed in the states.

*" Beyond Cassatt: Another Woman Impressionist.

Mary Cassatt painted many famous Impressionist works that idealize the innocence of girls and the mother-daughter bond, for example her 1884 work Children on the Beach During the same era, Whistler's Harmony in Gray and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander and The White Girl depict girls in the same light.

* May 22 – Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter ( died 1926 )