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Pre-Columbian Art
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Children in the Garden (The Nurse)
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Mary Cassatt
Children in the Garden (The Nurse)
1878
Oil on canvas
2001.471
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An American-born artist who spent most of her life in France, Cassatt (1844—1926) is well known for her images of women and children in domestic settings. She revisits that familiar theme in Children in the Garden, which she exhibited in the eighth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1886. Enclosed in a private garden, a nursemaid sits on a bench knitting, while one of her charges sleeps in a nearby carriage and the other plays at her feet.
Gift of Meredith J. and Cornelia Long
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Related Exhibitions & Collections:
American Painting and Sculpture
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