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Showing posts with label Master Pastelists. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

A Cup of Chocolate & an Article

The Cup of Chocolate, 1897
Pastel
28.7" x 21.3"
Mary Cassatt

First published in 2008.

Who are the great historic lights of pasteldom? The answer is briefed in Pastel Masters, by Naomi Ekperigin at American Artist Magazine's website. See what the influences of Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, William Merritt Chase and Jean-François Millet were on our contemporary burgeoning medium.

Grab yourself a cup of chocolate, and dig in to this article!