Mary Cassatt letter to Homer Saint-Gaudens

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Object Details

Creator

Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 1880-1958

Subject

Degas, Edgar

Morisot, Berthe

Place of publication, production, or execution

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Physical Description

Letter : 3 p. : handwritten ; 19 x 28 cm., folded to 19 x 14 (letter); 28 x 21 (transcript)

Summary

Cassatt tells Saint-Gaudens about Degas' and Berthe Morisot's impressions of her painting Young women picking fruit, which had just been acquired by the Carnegie Institute.

Citation

Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt letter to Homer Saint-Gaudens, 1922 Dec. 28. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Date

1922 Dec. 28

Record number

(DSI-AAA)15125

Type

Correspondence

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Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962, bulk 1885-1962

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Metadata Usage

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Record ID

AAADCD_item_15125