Women Admiring a Child

1897

Mary Cassatt American, 1844-1926

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About the Artwork

Title Women Admiring a Child

Artwork Date 1897

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

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Pastel

Dimensions Overall: 26 × 32 inches (66 × 81.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Edward Chandler Walker

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. 08.8

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Signed Signed, lower left: Mary Cassatt

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Edward Chandler Walker;
1908-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

“Two Notable Gifts.” Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 1 (January 1909): pp. 1-2.

Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. “The Master Impressionists (Chapter V).” Fine Arts Journal 28, no. 4, (April 1913): pp. 195-226 (ill.). [as Mother and Child]

Heil, Walter, Clyde Huntley Burroughs, Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 275.

Breeskin, A. D. Mary Cassat: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings. Washington D.C., 1970, p. 126, no. 272.

Cummings, Frederick J. and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 146.

"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, June 4, 1978, p. 21 [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Rivard, N.J. “American Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Antiques 114 (November 1978): p. 1052 (pl. 12).

Mathews, Nancy M. Mary Cassatt and the Modern Madonna of the Nineteenth Century. Ph.D. diss. New York University, 1980.

"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, p. 18 (ill.). [DIA Advertising Supplement].

"Family Art Game." Detroit News, April 14, 1985, p. 18 (ill.). [DIA Advertising Supplement].

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 206-207 (ill.).

Shaw, Nancy Rivard. “Rebellion, Defiance, and Beauty: Two Centuries of American Painting.” Apollo 124, no. 298 (December 1986): pp. 527-533 (pl. XVI).

Mathews, N.M. Mary Cassatt. New York, 1987, pp. 110, 113, 125 (fig. 98).

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume II. New York, 1997, pp. 42-44 (ill.).

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