Word: cassatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business together since 1975, and everything had apparently gone smoothly. According to the affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters and French impressionists, including a Rembrandt, a Titian, two Renoirs and three rare Seurats. Benedek said he put up $1.5 million for a half share in the first two deals and more than...
...eclectic choice of portraits, accompanied by masterly biographies in miniature. Here is the fervent "Stonewall" Jackson and the loquacious Henry James; here, too, is Charles Pinckney, the Revolutionary War officer remembered for his "incredibly bad military advice." The works themselves are undistinguished, apart from the self-portraits by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper; but these busts, etchings, daguerreotypes, oils and sketches constitute a museum of the human physiognomy-and of our civilization over the past two centuries...
...show includes more than 150 works by 85 painters. Some of them, like American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her French counterpart Berthe Morisot, are already embedded in the history of modern art. Others, just as famous in their day, now seem more like footnotes than culture heroines: Rosa...
...corollary was the myth of feminine sensibility. This, like anatomy, was declared to be destiny. Mary Cassatt's" Young Woman in Black (1883) is the kind of painting that used to be cited, with 20/20 hindsight, as the product of an "essentially feminine" sensibility, a painting as full of style and chic as an egg is of albumin. But is the kind of sensibility in its design-the springy black silhouette of blouse and tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex...
...entered the White House with deep misgivings, has learned some of the special pleasures of "living a page of history." She has sorted out those paintings that have extra meaning for her (John Singleton Copley's Lady in Blue, Ferdinand Reichardt's Philadelphia, 1858, and Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children are three other favorites). She has found the times of day, the special vistas and the moody corners that deepen her enjoyment...