Woman Reading (Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, the Artist's Sister), (painting)
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Object Details
- painter
- Cassatt, Mary 1844-1926
- Subject
- Cassatt, Lydia
- "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pl. 14.
- Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, no. 51.
- National Society of Colonial Dames, Nebraska, 1976.
- Coll. Checklist, July 1970.
- "Joslyn Art Museum, Paintings and Sculpture from the European and American Collections," Omaha, Nebraska: Josyln Art Museum, 1987, pg. 153.
- Image on file.
- "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman," New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998, pg. 241.
- "Joslyn Art Museum, Paintings and Sculpture from the European and American Collections," Omaha, Nebraska: Josyln Art Museum, 1987, pg. 154.
- Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, "Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970, pg. 44.
- (Lower left:) Mary Cassatt signed
- The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
- Summary
- Portrait of the artist's sister wearing a white and blue patterned dress and a white cap with pink ribbon. She is seated in garden chair, her attention directed to a newspaper she is reading.
- 1878-1879
- Control number
- IAP 80170051
- Type
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Owner/Location
- Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge Street Omaha Nebraska 68102 Accession Number: 1943.38
- Title
- Lydia Reading the Morning Paper (No. 1), (painting)
- Femme lisant, (painting)
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- Portrait female--Waist length
- Recreation--Leisure--Reading
- Object--Written Matter--Newspaper
- Record ID
- siris_ari_180646
- Metadata Usage (text)
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