Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

Visual arts constitute a significant segment of broadly understood culture. American painting includes numerous excellent artists, such as Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and many others, and encompasses all fields of visual art – from landscape and historical painting to Abstract Expressionism. The question of women’s presence in culture or – to be more precise – in the world of art is definitely a broad and interesting issue. The aim of this paper is to present and analyse the artistic output of an outstanding American woman painter Mary Cassatt and her influence on American culture. Painting was for a long time a male domain. Cassatt – the only American artist to exhibit with the Impressionists in Paris – can be undoubtedly called a pioneer.