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Mary Cassatt

1844 - 1926

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Cassatt is the 138th most popular painter (down from 89th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 191st in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Painter.

Mary Cassatt was a painter who is most famous for her paintings of mothers and children.

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Among painters, Mary Cassatt ranks 138 out of 2,023. Before her are Arnold Böcklin, Zeuxis, André Derain, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Mark Rothko, and Charles Le Brun. After her are Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edward Hopper, Émile Bernard, Lili Elbe, Man Ray, and Lavinia Fontana.

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Among people born in 1844, Mary Cassatt ranks 18. Before her are Menelik II, Umberto I of Italy, Alexandra of Denmark, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Peter I of Serbia, and Friedrich Ratzel. After her are Pablo de Sarasate, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ismail Qemali, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Muhammad Ahmad, and Charles-Marie Widor. Among people deceased in 1926, Mary Cassatt ranks 13. Before her are Harry Houdini, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea. After her are Symon Petliura, Emil Kraepelin, Kim Hyong-jik, Gertrude Bell, Rudolph Valentino, and Aleksei Brusilov.

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Among people born in United States, Mary Cassatt ranks 433 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Michael Jordan (1963), Martin Sheen (1940), Jack Lemmon (1925), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), and Frank Zappa (1940). After her are Bette Davis (1908), 50 Cent (1975), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Robert F. Kennedy (1925), Coen brothers (null), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Mary Cassatt ranks 4. Before her are Bob Ross (1942), Jackson Pollock (1912), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834). After her are Edward Hopper (1882), Man Ray (1890), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Asher Brown Durand (1796), Joseph Kosuth (1945), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), and Lyonel Feininger (1871).

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