On a Balcony

Paris, Cinquième Exposition de Peinture [Fifth Impressionist Exhibition], Apr. 1–30, 1880, cat. 20. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Seventy-First Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jan. 20–Mar. 1, 1902, cat. 529, as Woman Reading in a Garden. New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt, Nov. 5–21, 1903, cat. 10, as Femme lisant dans un Jardin. NY, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by the French Impressionists, Oct. 31–Dec. 8, 1907, cat. 18, as Woman Reading in a Garden. New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Impressionist Pictures, Oct. 1909–?, no cat. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One-Hundred-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Feb. 5–Mar. 26, 1911, cat. 328, as Woman Reading in the Garden. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 15, 1914–Jan. 24, 1915, cat. 73, as Woman Reading in a Garden. San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, June 2–Sept. 6, 1915, cat. 3006, as Woman Reading in a Garden. New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Mary Cassatt, Apr. 21–May 5, 1917, cat. 5, as Femme lisant dans un Jardin. MA, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Modern French Masters, lent by Durand–Ruel Galleries, New York City, Dec. 2–30, 1917, cat. 1, as Woman Reading in a Garden. New York, Durand–Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt, Nov. 15–Dec. 4, 1920, cat. 8, as Femme lisant dans un Jardin. Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Jan. 8–Feb. 6, 1921, cat. 17, as Femme Lisant dans un Jardin. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of Works of Mary Cassatt, Apr. 30–May 30, 1927, cat. 27, as Portrait of the Artist’s Sister, Miss Lydia Cassatt in a Garden. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Mary Cassatt, Mar. 15–Apr. 15, 1928, cat. 7, as Girl Reading in a Garden. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 199, as Woman Reading in a Garden. IL, Decatur Art Center, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 4–25, 1945, cat. 2, as Woman Reading in the Garden; Springfield Art Association, Apr. 3–30, 1945. CA, Pasadena Art Institute, Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Oct. 16–Dec. 2, 1951, cat. 1, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Jan. 4 –25, 1953, cat. 18. Art Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14–Feb. 25, 1954, cat. 10, as Woman Reading in a Garden; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 24–May 23, 1954. MI, Grand Rapids Art Gallery [Grand Rapids Art Museum], Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent Exhibition, Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Sept. 15–Oct. 15, 1955, cat. 5, as Woman Reading in a Garden. CA, Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Loan Exhibition of Works by John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt, Mar. 7–Apr. 5, 1959, cat. 39, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Art Gallery of Toronto, American Painting, 1865–1905, Jan. 6–Feb. 5, 1961, cat. 7, as Woman Reading in a Garden; Winnipeg Art Gallery Association, Feb. 17–Mar. 12, 1961; Vancouver Art Gallery, Mar. 29–Apr. 23, 1961; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, May 17–June 18, 1961. South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College, Women Artists in America Today, Apr. 10–30, 1962, cat. 1, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 43, as Femme Lisant dans un Jardin. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Mary Cassatt: An American Observer, Oct. 3–27, 1984, cat. 7, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 47 as Woman Reading in a Garden; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, Oct. 13, 1998–Jan. 10, 1999, cat. 13; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 14–May 9, 1999; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, June 6–Sept. 6, 1999. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cassatt–McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds, June 3–Sept. 4, 2023, no cat. no. Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, Sept. 6, 2026–Jan. 3, 2027, cat. 7.

Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., Catalogue de la Cinquième Exposition de Peinture [Catalogue of the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition], exh. cat. (Morris Père et Fils, Imprimeurs Brevetès, 1880), 6, cat. 20, as Sur un balcon. Armand Silvestre, “Le Monde des arts: Exposition de las rue des Pyramides (premier article),” La Vie Moderne (Apr. 24, 1880): 262. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy First Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1902), 44, cat. 529, as Woman Reading in a Garden, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.a0011289329. Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1903), n.p., cat. 10, as Femme lisant dans un Jardin. “A Notable Group of Pictures Revealing the Intellectual Vigor of the French Impressionistic School,” New York Times , Oct. 24, 1909, 12, https://www.nytimes.com/1909/10/24/archives/art-at-home-and-abroad-a-notable-group-of-pictures-revealing-the.html. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the One-Hundred-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1911), 36, cat. 328, as Woman Reading in the Garden, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.a0011289352. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifth Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, exh. cat. (Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1914), n.p., cat. 73, as Woman Reading in the Garden. John E.D. Trask and J. Nilsen Laurvik, Catalogue de Lux of the Department of Fine Arts Panama–Pacific International Exposition, vol. 2, exh. cat. (Paul Elder and Co., 1915), 297, 303, cat. 3006 (ill.), as Woman Reading in a Garden. “American Woman’s Unique Achievement in Modern Art,” Current Opinion 62, no. 6 (June 1917): 426–427 (ill.), as Reading in the Garden. “Exhibitions Now On: Paintings by Mary Cassatt,” American Art News 15, no. 29 (Apr. 28, 1917): 1–10, as Femme lisant dans un Jardin, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25589058. Art Gallery of Toronto, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of Toronto, 1921), 6, cat. 17, as Femme Lisant dans un Jardin, https://archive.org/details/catalogueofexhib00artguoft. Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1928), n.p., cat. 7, as Girl Reading in a Garden. “The Cover,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 32, no. 4, pt. 2 (Apr.–May 1938): cover, 58 (ill.), as Girl Reading in a Garden, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4120488. “Chicago: Two American Impressionist Works for the Art Institute,” The Art News 36, no. 35 (May 28, 1938): 20 (ill.), as Woman Reading in a Garden. Whitney N. Morgan, “Recent Museum Acquisitions,” Parnassus 10, no. 7 (Dec. 1938): 26–27, https://www.jstor.org/stable/771605. Homer Saint-Gaudens, ed., Survey of American Painting, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940), n.p., cat. 199, as Woman Reading in a Garden. “Carnegie Institute Presents Great Survey of American Painting,” The Art Digest 15, no. 3 (Nov. 1, 1940): 7 (ill.), as Woman Reading in a Garden (ill). Forbes Watson, “The Land of the Free,” Magazine of Art 33, no. 11 (Nov. 1940): 622 (ill.). Margaret Breuning, Mary Cassatt (Hyperion Press, 1944), 20 (ill.), as Woman Reading in a Garden. Springfield Art Association, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Springfield Art Association, 1945), 4, 9, cat. 2 (ill.), as Woman Reading in the Garden. John Palmer Leeper, “Mary Cassatt and Her Parisian Friends,” Bulletin of the Pasadena Art Institute 2 (Oct. 1951): 5, cat. 1, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, exh. cat. (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1953), n.p., cat. 18. Frederick A. Sweet, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1954), 24, cat. 10, as Woman Reading in a Garden. Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent Exhibition, exh. cat. (Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1955), n.p., cat. 5, as Woman Reading in a Garden. 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Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 262–65, cat. 127 (ill.). Norma Broude, “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman or the Cult of True Womanhood?” Woman’s Art Journal 21, no. 2 (Autumn 2000–Winter 2001): 36–43, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358749. Laurent Manoeuvre, Mary Cassatt: au Coeur de l’impresionnisme (À Propos, 2018), 94–96, cat. 61 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 54–55, cat. 21 (ill.). Caroline Shields, ed., Cassatt–McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2023), 10, 27, no cat. no. (ill.). Annelise K. Madsen, Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, ex. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), 20, 107, 194, cat. 7 (ill.).