Mary Cassatt - Summertime 1894
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Summertime 1894
100x81cm oil on canvas
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago:
A woman and a girl look down from their small boat at two swimming ducks in Mary Cassatt’s Summertime. The artist used a compressed vertical format, close-up focus, and dramatically tipped-up perspective, eliminating the horizon and cropping the boat on the right. By thus downplaying the larger setting, she emphasized the figures’ shared absorbed concentration as they gaze downward toward the agitated surface of the water. The woman is genteely garbed for warm weather in a long-sleeved dress, a large hat, and white gloves; in contrast, the girl, her face shaded by a practical sun-hat, wears only a slight sundress whose strap slips casually off her shoulder as she twists to observe the ducks below. Cassatt infuses this fleeting incident of summertime leisure with both intimacy and monumentality.