Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
Cassatt – McNicoll
Impressionists Between Worlds
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2023
- Category
- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Women Artists, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773103174
- Publish Date
- Aug 2023
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the work of two pioneering women Impressionist painters: the American Mary Cassatt and her Canadian contemporary Helen McNicoll. Renowned for their depictions of modern womanhood, their work had a profound impact on the development and proliferation of Impressionism in North America.
Educated in Philadelphia and Montreal respectively, Cassatt and McNicoll both left North America for Europe in their early twenties to study and pursue art professionally. Cassatt was an original member of the Impressionist movement in Paris, and a generation later, McNicoll contributed to the movement’s evolution and spread around the globe. Posthumously, history came to know them as painters of women and children, yet their work has a far more nuanced relationship with themes of womanhood and maternity than such labelling has allowed.
Featuring essays by Caroline Shields, Nicole Georgopolis, Samantha Burton, and Julie Nash and richly illustrated with over 100 reproductions, including previously unpublished images from Helen McNicoll’s sketchbooks, Cassatt – McNicoll shines a long overdue spotlight on two trailblazing artists.
About the author
Caroline Shields is associate curator and head of European art at the AGO.