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Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and died in 1926. Against the wishes of her family, she studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1861-65 and then moved to Paris, France, in 1866 to study the old masters, and where she was to live most of her adult life. In 1872, Cassatt studied with Camille Pissarro and had her first painting exhibited in the Paris Salon. In 1874, she met Edgar Degas and began exhibiting with the Impressionists. [More...]

Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and died in 1986. She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago for two years starting in 1905, and then studied under William Merritt Chase at the Art Student Leagues in 1907-8. She taught art and other subjects in Texas until 1918, after which she moved to New York at the invitation of the photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. She and Stieglitz later married, in 1924. In the 1920s, O'Keeffe began to paint the large scale oil paintings for which she is perhaps best known. Between 1929 and 1949, she lived in New Mexico for part of each year and in New York the rest. [More...]

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, and died in 1954. Her father was of German ancestry and her mother was Mexican. She grew up during the Mexican Revolution, which greatly influenced her outlook. She had polio at age six, leaving her with one leg much thinner than the other. At age 18, she was in a trolley accident, leaving her unable to carry a pregnancy to term, and requiring over 30 surgeries over her life. She switched from studying medicine to painting. Through her art, she later met the painter Diego Rivera, who she married in 1929. [More...]