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Mary Cassatt

Mother's Kiss, 1890-1891

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Medium

color drypoint and aquatint on Japan paper

Dimensions

plate: 34.93 × 22.86 cm (13 3/4 × 9 in.)

sheet: 37.2 x 27.6 cm (14 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 11, iv/v

Accession Number

1943.3.2759

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: E; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt. Rosenwald Collection and gift of Miss Elisabeth Achelis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950.

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 42.

1958: Color Etchings and Aquatints by Mary Cassatt, Ogunquit Museum, ME, 1958.

1963: Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963.

1964: Prints by Mary Cassatt, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and circulated to 10 venues (Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Norton Gallery & School of Art, Palm Beach, FL; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and A.D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 1964-1965.

1965: An Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.

1967: Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1967.

1968: An Exhibition of Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968.

1970: Mary Cassatt, 1844 - 1926, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.

1973: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 1973 - 1974.

1973: Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.

1989: Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 1989-1990, no. 11-IV, repro.

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 149, iii/iv.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 11, iv/v.

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