Where did Mary Cassatt grow up and live?

📍Allegheny (North Side), Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

1844 – 1926

“I was born Mary Stevenson Cassatt on the 22nd of May 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, into a prosperous family that travelled extensively in Europe during my childhood. I studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, went to Europe to study seriously, settled in Paris, and became the only American invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists. Degas became my closest colleague. I painted women and children — not as sentimental subjects but as the full reality of domestic life, seen from the inside by someone who lived that life.”

👍 LovedThe Impressionist circle and Degas's friendship. The domestic world of women and children painted as full human reality. The Paris of the 1870s and 1880s.

👎 DislikedThe gender restrictions that limited women artists' access to public subjects. The cataracts of my final years that ended my painting. The American art world's slowness to recognise my work.

Map showing where Mary Cassatt lived — Allegheny (North Side), Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Mary Cassatt's home at Allegheny (North Side), Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

📍 Street view today

Sources: Mathews, N. Mary Cassatt: A Life (1994), Villard Books; Pollock, G. Mary Cassatt (1980), Jupiter Books