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Summertime is a stunning oil painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. The original artwork belongs to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Cassatt was an essential artist of the late 19th-century, and her works depicting the private lives of women still captivate to this day. She initially entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, where Thomas Eakins was her peer. Frustrated by the restrictions still present on American art, Cassatt, who was deeply familiarized with the work of the Old Masters, decided to move to Europe. There, she developed her unique painting style, conciliating the gestural brushstroke with a realistic rendition of figures.
Summertime shows two women on a rowing boat, observing a group of ducks that swim close to them. Unlike her Impressionist peers, who were very interested in landscapes, Cassatt focused on interiors, genre painting, and portraits. This is an exception in her body of work: while not being a landscape per se, the outside scenery plays a significant role in the picture
The whole piece was painted with bravado brushwork: fast, gestural, and broad strokes. The lake the boat is on shows a mixture of intense light blue, black and small strokes of soft yellow. At the top, the hills amount to an almost abstract section, a strip of light green. In Summertime, Cassatt can bring all the sun’s intensity through the color: the shiny, warm colors make a seductive invitation for the spectator’s eye to plunge into this fantastic piece. And still, she kept her fidelity of the bodies: the women are presented realistically, a trait that never left Cassatt’s work.
Cassatt started as an Academic painter. She had a tremendous technical skill concerning oil paint, which brought her very close to Edgar Degas, another odd figure in the Impressionist group and a virtuoso. However, as is widely known, Degas was a very hard-to-deal person. Even though he immensely praised Cassatt and even informally tutored her (he was the one that invited her to the Impressionist group), he would often make misogynistic remarks such as “a woman can’t paint that well!”. This prompted a later fallout in their relationship.
Either way, Degas and Cassatt’s artistic exchange is undeniable, with one influencing the other. From the Academic conventions that Cassatt had learned with Jean-Leon Gérôme, she transitioned into a very fluid manner. From the 1890s, her style got simplified, and her palette intensely bright.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Summertime2, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Summertime2 that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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