“Cassatt borrowed clarity from Japanese prints — pink and periwinkle laid flat against pale green, the mother and child given an outline the Impressionists would never have allowed.”
Mary Cassatt
Painter · Impressionism · 1844–1926
American Impressionist whose mothers, children, and prints used pink, periwinkle, and a clear pale green borrowed from Japanese woodblock.
The Palette
Curatorial Note
“Cassatt borrowed clarity from Japanese prints — pink and periwinkle laid flat against pale green, the mother and child given an outline the Impressionists would never have allowed.”
American Impressionist whose mothers, children, and prints used pink, periwinkle, and a clear pale green borrowed from Japanese woodblock.
