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...Georgia O'Keeffe, 68, is an austere daughter of the American prairie and, next to Mary Cassatt, the best woman painter that the U.S. has produced. After working at commerical art in Chicago and teaching in Texas, O'Keeffe one day locked herself in a room and "held a private exhibition of everything I had painted. I noticed which paintings had been influenced by this painter, which by that one. Then I determined which . . . represented me alone. From that moment forward, I knew exactly what kind of work I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Age of Experiment | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...than a maker of period pieces has not yet arrived. "While his star appears to be rising again," Rathbone wrote in the exhibition catalogue, "critical opinion is not yet willing ... to admit that he is the artistic peer of his now more securely established American contemporaries-Homer, Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Ryder and Whistler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Appearances | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...being a Who's Who of American painting, sweeping from Charles Willson Peale, the academy's founder, and Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans to send part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Who's Who in Philadelphia | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Looking at her later pictures, her critics professed to long for her "earlier, freer work," before she was hemmed in by fashionable portraiture. Last week the Berkshire show gave critics a chance to reassess Ellen Rand's lifetime production. Their verdict: a good second to her contemporary, Mary Cassatt (1845-1926). America's best woman painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gentle Portraitist | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Says Curator Sweet of the three expatriates: "Whistler developed a style almost entirely his own-a kind of impressionism quite different from the French. Sargent followed European portrait traditions, but he did it better than the Europeans; he had an American enthusiasm and directness. Mary Cassatt was very vigorous and stimulating, and I think the French artists of the time were aware of it." All in all, Sweet concludes, the three brought more to European art than they gained from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Expatriates in Chicago | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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