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Exhibitions: 4 x 4

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Artist(s): Mary Cassatt (Allegheny City (Pittsburgh), PA, May 22, 1844 - Jun 14, 1926, Chateau de Beau F
Title: Mother and Child in Boat
Date: 1908
Dimensions: 45 3/4 in. x 32 in. (116.21 cm x 81.28 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of anonymous donor, 1930.378
Location: On view in Gallery 205

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Exhibitions: 4 x 4
Exhibitions: Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection
Themes: Gender

Object Information

Born in Pennsylvania, Cassatt spent most of her career in Paris, where she exhibited with the impressionists. A feminist, Cassatt celebrated womanhood and became renowned for portraits of mothers and children, modern secular takes on the archetypal religious image of the Madonna and Child. Depicted in both domestic interiors and outdoor settings, her women and children enjoy tender, quiet moments of everyday life. In Mother and Child in Boat, the mother appears nurturing, gently holding her daughter’s hand as she dips her toe into the water.

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

A Loan Exhibition of 19th Century Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American, Whitney Museum of American Art, 3/28/1933 - 4/27/1933
Survey of American Painting, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 10/24/1940 - 12/15/1940
Mary Cassatt, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., 10/29/1947 - 12/6/1947
American Painting 1800-1900, American Federation of Arts, 8/16/1954 - 7/17/1955
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Vassar College Exhibition, Vassar College, 5/1/1957 - 5/27/1957
Master Painters, The Montclair Art Museum, 10/2/1957 - 10/31/1957
Impressionist Paintings by American Artists, The Parrish Art Museum, 6/26/1959 - 7/19/1959
American Traditionalists of the 20th Century, Columbus Museum of Art, 2/15/1963 - 3/17/1963
American Impressionists: Two Generations, American Federation of Arts, 10/1/1963 - 5/31/1965
Mary Cassatt Retrospective, National Gallery of Art, 9/26/1970 - 11/8/1970
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 12/12/1974 - 3/17/1974
Mary Cassatt, James A. McNeill Whistler, John S. Sargent, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/9/1981 - 2/8/1981
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia, Museums at Sunrise, 6/4/1983 - 9/4/1983
Art in Embassies Program: Paris France, , 7/12/1989 - 2/11/1993
Mary Cassatt: The Making of "Mother and Child in a Boat", High Museum of Art, 12/14/1993 - 3/27/1994
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
French and American Impressionism, Albany Museum of Art, 9/12/1996 - 11/3/1996
Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2007 - 4/8/2007
Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 12/1/2007 - 5/15/2008
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
Mary Cassatt: A Retrospective, NHK, 6/25/2016 - 12/4/2016
Mary Cassatt, An American in Paris, Museé Jacquemart-André, 3/9/2018 - 7/23/2018
4 x 4, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2018 - 7/31/2019
Regarding America: 19th Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/23/2022 - 7/31/2022

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