Gathering fruit / Mary Cassatt. – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Gathering fruit / Mary Cassatt., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gathering fruit / Mary Cassatt.
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Mary Cassatt's "Gathering Fruit" set its figures in an orchard, where women and young girls pick fruit from the trees, a scene the record ties to the idea of knowledge handed from one generation to the next. The print is a drypoint and aquatint, hand-colored, and it belongs to a group of works Cassatt developed in connection with her mural for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which took "Modern Woman" as its theme. The mural itself was meant to celebrate women's education and achievement, and the orchard image carries that message through an ordinary rural task, making the act of harvesting a metaphor for learning passed down.
| Created / published | [ca. 1895] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print: drypoint and aquatint, hand-colored. |
| Genre | included a section showing women and young girls harvesting fruit in an orchard symbolizing the passing on and sharing of the "fruits of knowledge." Artist's monogram stamp. Signed with pencil. Breeskin |
| Notes | One of series of works related to Cassatt's mural for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition on the theme of Modern Woman." The original mural |
| Subjects | Women--Education--1890-1900. Fruit--1890-1900. Harvesting--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,013 × 1,492 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176863 |
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