N.C. Museum of Art receives work by Mary Cassatt


The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh has acquired its first work by impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, courtesy of a Winston-Salem woman and some anonymous donors. “Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinee” will go on view in the museum’s impressionist gallery later this month and be part of its permanent collection, museum officials said Tuesday. “We are very excited and fortunate to acquire this beautiful portrait by Mary Cassatt – the Museum’s first major work by an American female artist before Georgia O’Keeffe,” said John Coffey, with the NCMA. “In my opinion, it is not only the Museum’s most important 19th-century painting by a female artist – it is our finest 19th-century portrait.” The painting has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Paris, Zürich, New York, Tokyo, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington.