Mother and Daughter Both Wearing Large Hats

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Born in America to a wealthy Pennsylvania family, Mary Cassatt moved to Paris as a student, swiftly finding success at the Paris Salon. An introduction to artist Edgar Degas changed the direction of her own art and she became one of several women associated with the Impressionist movement. She lived the majority of her life in France, becoming well known …

The Snow Squall

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An immigrant who arrived in America at the age of 17, Thomas Cole’s only art training was in making panels for wallpaper, yet he became the “father” of the first great American art movement, the Hudson River School. These works presented an expansive landscape evoking the grandeur of God via the careful selection of particular perfected landscape elements. A “Renaissance …