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Feeding the Ducks

Feeding the Ducks

Artist/Maker (American, 1845–1926)
Date1895
MediumDrypoint and aquatint
DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (29.9 × 40 cm)
Sheet: 14 11/16 × 18 3/4 in. (37.3 × 47.6 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1957.19
Status
Not on view
More Information
By the 1890s, children became a significant subject in Cassatt’s paintings and prints. A shift in social understanding to regard childhood as a mirror of society during the 19th century led many upper-class mothers to take a more active role in child rearing. Cassatt’s work focused on these moments of intimacy and familiarity between women and children in the domestic sphere.
Exhibition History
Impressionism: 100 Years
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (December 14, 1974 - January 19, 1975 )
Teaching Exhibition
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 3, 1981 - October 4, 1981 )
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
Japonisme
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 1997 - October 12, 1997 )
Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family
  • Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (June 14, 2008 - October 26, 2008 )
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (November 21, 2008 - January 25, 2009 )
Transformation: Images of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 1, 2015 - December 23, 2015 )
Women Bound and Unbound
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 5, 2019 - May 26, 2019 )
Collections
  • Americas
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