Press Release - Mona Bismarck | American Center
Press Release - Mona Bismarck | American Center Press Release - Mona Bismarck | American Center
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Musée Galliera, the Musée Guimet, the Cité d'Architecture, and the Musée du Quai Branly. In addition, the city of Paris is currently taking measures to make our neighborhood more conducive to foot traffic, so our area should attract even more people and help us to create synergies with our neighboring institutions. In short, all of this should help to revive the sleeping beauty of avenue de New York! 6
AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN PARIS It was not easy to be a female artist during the Third Republic, even less so a foreign one at that. When Mary Cassatt moved to Paris in 1874, memories of the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris Commune were still quite vivid. The surrounding aesthetic was largely academic and nationalistic. Thus, when Cassatt presented the color prints that made her famous at the Peintres-Graveurs exhibition in 1891, it was in a separate room specifically for foreigners. The biases against women’s artistic abilities were strong in France, where women were only accepted as amateurs or watercolor painters. Despite the strikes against her, Mary Cassatt was one of only three women, and the only American, to exhibit with the Impressionists. Degas had noticed her at the 1874 Salon and invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists in 1877. She accepted and exhibited regularly with them from 1879 to 1886. Like Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt knew how to maintain her place as a painter and printmaker among the Impressionists. Throughout her career, which was almost exclusively outside of the United States, she sought to depict women in their social functions: at the theater, having tea, with their children and in their daily activities, without sentimentality or idealism. She used her friends and family members as models: often her sister Lydia and her mother. She was also a valued adviser to American collectors, especially to her childhood friend Louisine Havemeyer. In 1929, Cassatt was instrumental in her friend’s acquisitions of Degas and Manet, quite notable as her collection was ultimately given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Indeed, Mary Cassatt played an important role in bringing Impressionism to the United Sates. One of her art dealers, Durand-Ruel, organized a huge Impressionist exhibition in New York in 1886, which also helped to establish the movement in North America. At the end of her life, Mary Cassatt was recognized as an artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was praised as one of the major figures of her time. She was truly a Modern Woman (title of her nowmissing mural that was exhibited at the Universal Exposition in Chicago in 1893), who worked to obtain the right to vote for women in the United States. 7
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Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Musée Galliera, the Musée Guimet, the Cité<br />
d'Architecture, and the Musée du Quai Branly. In addition, the city of Paris is currently taking<br />
measures to make our neighborhood more conducive to foot traffic, so our area should attract even<br />
more people and help us to create synergies with our neighboring institutions. In short, all of this<br />
should help to revive the sleeping beauty of avenue de New York!<br />
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