In the Garden

1903 or 1904

Mary Cassatt American, 1844-1926

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

In the Garden belongs to a group of pastels, drawings, and paintings done after 1900 and based upon children living in the village near the artist’s home in France. Cassatt’s practice with these child models was to use them again and again so they became accustomed to her and the demands of posing. The composition has several features common to impressionism: the high vantage point, the extension of the ground almost to the top of the canvas, the placement of the cropped figures in the immediate foreground, and the bold juxtaposition of the figures and the background.

Title In the Garden

Artwork Date 1903 or 1904

Artist Mary Cassatt

Life Dates 1844-1926

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 26 3/4 × 32 1/2 inches (67.9 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 35 3/4 inches × 42 inches × 41 1/4 inches (90.8 × 106.7 × 104.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 22.6

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Signed Signed, lower left: Mary Cassatt

Provenance

Mary Cassatt (Paris, France);
dealer, Durand-Ruel (New York, New York, USA).
Cyrus J. Lawrence (New York, New York, USA);
1910, American Art Galleries, Cyrus J. Lawrence Sale (New York, New York, USA).
James Stillman (Paris, France).
Dr. Ernest G. Stillman (New York, New York, USA)
1922-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Illustrated Catalogue of the Art Treasures Collected by the Well-Known Connoisseur the Late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. New York, 1910, p. 3.

Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1922, no. 25.

“Art Institute Gets Mysterious Present: Painting by Mary Cassatt is Anonymous Gift.” Detroit News. (February 19, 1922).

“The Mystery Gift of the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Detroit News (February 26, 1922).

Burroughs, C. “Painting by Mary Cassatt Presented.” Bulletin of the DIA 3 (April 1922): pp. 66-67.

Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1930.

Sargent, Whistler and Cassatt. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, 1955.

Michigan Museums Exhibition. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1961.

Impressionism in America. Exh. cat., New Mexico University of Art Gallery. Albuquerque, 1965, no. 4.

Breeskin, A. D. Mary Cassat: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings. Washington D.C., 1970, p. 175, no. 452.

Mary Cassatt. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, 1974, no. 3.

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertsing Supplement. Detroit Free Press. (May 20, 1979): p. 21 (ill.).

Getlien, Frank. Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Prints. 1980, p. 136.

Six Femmes Peintres. Exh. cat., Musee Prefectoral d’Aichi. Nagoya, Japan, 1983, no. 55.

Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York, 1988, no. 493.

Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Bunkamura Museum of Art.Tokyo, 1989, no. 67.

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume II. New York, 1997, pp. 44-46(ill.).

Crane, Michael. Detroit's Annual Exhibition of American Art: The Foundation of a Collection. www.dia.org/research/online_publications/annual_american_art, 2005.

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