The challenges of their professional and personal lives proved to be too heavy a burden for the majority of these women, Mary Cassatt was the only one who maintained a successful career to the end of her life. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was the daughter of a successful Pittsburgh businessman. ... Not only did Mary Cassatt embrace Impressionism as an artist, she also provided support for the Impressionist movement through financial backing and the promotion of other Impressionists by advising friends and relatives to purchase their works. Mary Cassatt showed her work in the United States, and ...

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The formal education of women artists in the United States has taken quite a long journey. It wasn't until the nineteenth century that the workings of a recognized education for these women finally appeared. Two of the most famous and elite schools of art that accepted, and still accept, women pupils are the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (the PAFA). Up until the early nineteenth century, women were mostly taught what is now called a "fashionable education- (Philadelphia School of Design for Women 5). Their mothers raised them to be p...

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The main members of the Impressionist group consisted of Claude Monet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Armand Guillaumin, Édouard Manet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir. ...

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