What Is Mary Cassatts Date of Birth?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Scholars, I seek your input. Yesterday a reader emailed me to let me know I’d made a “minor typo” by putting Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) down for a May 25 birth date. Believe me, I’m not saying I’m right, only that I did cross-reference sources (as always) before using that date. Specifically, the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914 (both published by Oxford University Press). I have subsequently seen May 25, 1844 used in an exhibition catalogue from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art entitled Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist & Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection (2005). Well, I have no other physical reference materials in my possession and May 22, 1844 is all over the Internet as the correct date of Miss Cassatt’s birth. There are also less frequent mentions of May 23, 1844; May 23, 1845; and May 22
