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Mary Cassatt

Gathering Fruit, c. 1893

Not on View

Medium

color drypoint, softground etching, and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 42 x 29.8 cm (16 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 47.9 x 39 cm (18 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 15, xi/xi

Accession Number

1943.3.2757

Artists / Makers

Mary Cassatt (artist) American, 1844 - 1926

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Inscription

recto: at lower left in graphite in later hand: A [?]; verso: none

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b)

Exhibition History

1950: Prints by Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950.

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 45.

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

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

1967: Miss Mary Cassatt: Paintings and Graphic Arts, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1967.

1978: Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Color Prints, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 1978, no. 48.

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990, no. 96, repro.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, no. 69, as The Kitchen Garden (Le Potager) (shown only in Chicago and Boston).

2015: The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 2015-2016 (only shown in Philadelphia).

Bibliography

1979: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 157, v/v.

1989: Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 15, xi/xi.

1990: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 96.

1991: Gingold, Diane J., and Elizabeth A.C. Weil. The Corporate Patron. New York, 1991: 71, color repro.

1998: Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999: 94, no. 69, repro.

2015: Marley, Anna O., ed., The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2015: 207, pl. 74.

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