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Until now, anyone wishing to trace the ownership of one of Mary Cassatt’s paintings or to learn where a certain work has been exhibited would consult Adelyn Dohme Breeskin's pioneering catalogue raisonné, which is now long out of print and hard to find. The new online Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Pastels, and Watercolors is offered free of charge online. It builds significantly upon its predecessor: works have been eliminated; many more new ones have been included; errors have been corrected; four decades of additional research has been added. In this revised edition every effort has been made to ensure that the images are new and of the highest quality and that the provenances are as accurate and reliable as possible. The new online Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonné multiplies the possibilities of viewing the work, displaying results in six essentially different arrays: a catalogue, a chronology of stylistic development, ownership histories, exhibitions, literary references, and through original essays commissioned especially for this venture. This online catalogue is a valuable resource filling the needs of the scholarly and commercial communities, providing dynamic access to high quality data. We are pleased to announce that this |
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above: Breakfast in Bed (oil on canvas) was painted by Mary Cassatt in 1897. Cassatt ranks among the greatest artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That she achieved this status, rare in any case, is even more astonishing because she was a woman and an American in a field dominated almost completely by European men. Beloved for images depicting the modern woman of her age in public and private moments, often in the company of children, Cassatt created a body of work that continues to appeal to a wide range of viewers. Her pictures, most of them made in France, can now be found in the collections of individuals and institutions from Wichita to Moscow. They have been shown in hundreds of exhibitions and illustrated in more than a thousand books and periodicals for more than a century. With more breadth and depth than just about anything on the Internet, the Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonné is a striking example of quality information design.
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