Summertime

Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter born in Pittsburg. Cassatt learned from her Impressionist colleagues Caillebotte, Degas, and Renoir, as well as her study of Japanese prints, the idea that the background of a painting might be as significant as the foreground. She often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children, as in the painting you see here.