Describe Mary Cassatt's education.?

Answer 1

Despite her family's objections to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1861-1865). Impatient with the slow pace of instruction and the patronizing attitude of the male students and teachers, she decided to study the old masters on her own, and in 1866 she moved to Paris.

Cassatt studied in Paris, Rome, Parma and Seville, before returning and settling permanently in the French capital in 1874. The paintings she produced in this period--of women flirting, tossing flowers, sharing refreshment with a bullfighter--reveal a young artist eager to combine the skill of the Old Masters with the adventuresome subject matter of the moderns.