Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 by Mary Cassatt.
Mary Cassatt is well known for her paintings of children where she presents the children naturally as opposed to being idealized or as mini adults.
One of the Guys
Lydia at the Tapestry Loom, c. 1881, by Mary Cassatt
.Lydia was Cassatt's sister and a frequent subject in her paintings. Cassatt lived and studied Impressionism in Paris where she specialized in paintings of women and children and a look into their private lives.
For Bertha
Under the Horse Chestnut Tree by Mary Cassatt, 1895, Moma
American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt is well known for her paintings of women and children. Although she never had children herself, she captures the intimate moments between the mothers and children that were her family and friends, with care and feeling.
Happy Father's Day
Portrait if
and his son, Robert Kelso Cassatt
by
,1884-85,
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
, the Impressionist artist, is well known for using her family as models in her artwork (men and boys are seen less often) as she spent a lot of her time around the women of the family. In this portrait we see
father and her brother sharing an intimate moment. Her father was a railroad man and probably not around the house as often, or willing to sit still for very long (pure conjecture on my part). Happy Father's Day - perhaps you can capture an image of your father today?