Mary Cassat is a very talented American artist. She is one of only two women who worked with the French Impressionists. Her typical subject matter consists of a mother and child in settings that range between living rooms to gardens. She's best known for portraying the relationship between the two, which tends to bring Madonna and Child into thought. Although most of her work can compare to this, she somehow manages to remove the religious aspect and at the same time modernizes her subjects in the piece. Instead, Cassat's main point is usually to focus on the relationship in general between a woman and child. In her later work, she started to use hired models and other artists to sit in instead of having an actual mother and child. This is interesting because by doing this, her focus changes from an informal family portrait to a study of human interaction. This picture here is a piece called The Child's Caress. This is an example of her later work where it is two individuals staged to be painted together.
Leialoha Tucker
Leialoha Tucker