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Essay

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926)

October 1, 2004

By H. Barbara Weinberg

Under [the Impressionists’] influence, Cassatt revised her technique, composition, and use of color and light, manifesting her admiration for the works of the French avant-garde, especially Degas and Manet.

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Museums Without Men: Mary Cassatt

March 8, 2024

By Katy Hessel and Laura D. Corey

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editorial

Mary Cassatt in a Modernist Light: A Close Look at Mother and Child

March 29, 2018

By Marjorie Shelley

A paper conservator at The Met sheds light on the modernist pastel technique of Mary Cassatt's Mother and Child (1914).

Past Exhibition

Mary Sully: Native Modern

18 juillet 2024–12 janvier 2025

Mary Sully—born Susan Mabel Deloria on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota—was a little-known, reclusive Yankton Dakota artist who, between the 1920s and 1940s, created highly distinctive work informed by her Native American and settler a…

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Mary Sully: A Reclamation

November 14, 2024

For decades, the work of Native American artist Mary Sully remained largely unseen. A discovery in a basement brought this great artist’s work to light.

Essay

American Furniture, 1620–1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles

March 1, 2010

By Nicholas C. Vincent

Furniture in the early Baroque, or William and Mary, style broke away from the solid, horizontal massing and rectilinear outlines of the preceding era.

Essay

Documenting a Legacy: Mary Griggs Burke

November 19, 2018

By Angela Salisbury

The Mary Griggs Burke papers arrived at the Museum in 2015 as a complement to Mrs. Burke's landmark bequest of Japanese and Korean art.

editorial

Celebrating the Legacy of Japanese Art Collector Mary Griggs Burke

May 27, 2016

By Angela Salisbury

Angela Salisbury, senior associate for Archival Processing, details what she has learned about Mary Griggs Burke as a collector and philanthropist from a trove of Mrs. Burke's personal correspondence, scrapbooks, and documents.

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Missionaries Making Music: Building Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown's Collection

July 28, 2014

By Sally B. Brown

Guest author Sally Brown—the great-granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown—highlights the importance of her family's relationship with missionaries across the world in growing what was to become the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments.

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Mary Weatherford on Goya’s Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga

June 6, 2016

Artist Mary Weatherford reflects on Goya's Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga in this episode of The Artist Project.