The Letter by Mary Cassatt
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The Letter

Mary Cassatt · 1890–91

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist to Durand-Ruel [Chicago 1998]. Albert Roullier, Chicago [Chicago 1998]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1932.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Baltimore Museum of Art, "Mary Cassatt," January 7-February 10, 1936, p. 13, cat. 27.
  • Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, "Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia," May 17-July 1, 1979.
  • Williamstown, Mass., Williams College Museum of Art, "Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints," November 25, 1989-January 21, 1990, p. 124, cat. 8-IV
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, January 27, 1993-January 16, 1994.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," October 10, 1998-January 10, 1999, pp. 281 and 323, cat. 59 (ill.).
  • Smart Museum of Art, "Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints", October 4, 2012 - January 20, 2013, pp. 120-121, fig. 99, cat. 51, cat. by Chelsea Foxwell et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin XXVII (1933), p. 40 (ill.).
  • Adelyn D. Breeskin, The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt (New York, 1948), p. 73, no. 146.
  • Nancy Mowll Matthews and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints, exh. cat. (New York, 1989), p. 124, cat. 8-IV.
  • Diane De Grazia and Carter E. Foster (editors), Master Drawings from the Cleveland Musesum of Art, exh. cat. (Cleveland, 2000), p. 214, fig. 1.
  • Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (San Francisco, 2005).
  • Pamela Norris, Words of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath (London, 2006).

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