Mothers and Children

Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.
Pablo Picasso
Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)
oil on canvas
43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);36 5/16 in x 28 3/4 in (92.2 cm x 73 cm)
Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
Johan Albertus Neuhuys
Mother and Child
watercolor on white paper
22 1/4 in. x 18 3/16 in. ( 56.5 cm x 46.2 cm )
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
A portrait of two women; the woman on the left kisses the forehead of the younger woman to the right, who looks down. They both wear draped fabric.
Julia Margaret Cameron
The Kiss of Peace
albumen print on paper
9 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in (23.18 cm x 18.1 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);18 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (45.88 cm x 56.04 cm)
Museum Purchase
Marcellin Desboutin
La Sortie de Bébé: published by Veuve A. Cadart in 'L'Eau-forte en 1879'
drypoint on laid paper
12 15/16 in. x 9 3/8 in. ( 32.9 cm x 23.8 cm )
Museum Purchase
none
Chad Hunt
Kayla and her Mother, Spotsylvania, VA
black and white photograph on paper
10 x 8 in. ( 25.4 x 20.32 cm )
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
Jean-François Millet
The Mendicant
black chalk on off-white paper
15 3/16 in x 17 1/2 in (38.58 cm x 44.45 cm);25 in x 26 3/4 in (63.5 cm x 67.94 cm);15 3/16 in x 17 1/2 in (38.58 cm x 44.45 cm)
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
Kara Walker
One of five prints from the suite "The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts"
aquatint and etching on light cream Somerset Satin wove paper
34 7/8 x 23 3/8 in. (88.5 x 59.3 cm);40 x 28 x 1 in. (101.6 x 71.12 x 2.54 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
Sticker added to front of the print stamped with the numbers "1345". Colors: green, blue, purple, peach, yellow. Paper size: lh 44 & rh 44 1/5cm x tw 61 2/5cm & bw 61 3/10cm. Plate & Image Size: lh 30 4/5cm & rh 30 3/5cm x tw 45 3/5cm & bw 45 2/5cm.
Artist Unknown
Mother and Children in Garden
color etching, aquatint and soft-ground on Arches beige laid paper
21 9/16 in. x 26 9/16 in. x 1 in. ( 54.8 cm x 67.5 cm x 2.5 cm )
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
Clay female figure seated on a stool, holding a nursing baby. 

Maternity Figure
terracotta with white pigment
9 5/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 5 13/16 in (24.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 14.8 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Pinsof
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Charity (La Charité)
oil on canvas
54 ⅞ in x 44 ¼ in x 2 ½ in (139.38 cm x 112.4 cm x 6.35 cm);54 ⅞ in x 44 ¼ in x 2 ½ in (139.38 cm x 112.4 cm x 6.35 cm)
Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
She prays for her (Ruega pro ella)
etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on paper
12 in x 8 in (30.48 cm x 20.32 cm);7 7/8 in x 5 3/16 in (20 cm x 13.18 cm);8 1/16 in x 5 7/8 in (20.48 cm x 14.92 cm)
Gift of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco, and partial purchase with the funds from the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
Colors: black, brown, red, orane, green, blue. Torn at upper right corner. Previously folded under at bottom (approximately 8cm) and top (approximately 5cm) at calendered line. Paper size: lh 82 1/2cm & rh 84 1/5cm x w 62cm. Image size: l 59cm x tw 49 3/5cm & bw 51 3/5cm.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Enfants Jouant a la Balle
color lithograph on Arches MBM beige laid paper
36 3/4 in. x 29 3/4 in. ( 93.35 cm x 75.57 cm )
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.

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73 Collection Object Sources

The Mendicant (1955/1.107)
Maternity Figure (1983/2.174)
Family (1949/2.58)
Woman and Child (1948/1.93)
Mother and Baby (2008/2.448)
'61 Pontiac (1974/1.253)
Mother and Child (2008/2.432)
Child Mother (1958/1.111)
Mother and Child (1978/1.167)
Refugees (1950/1.153)
Two Figures (1950/1.148)
Madonna and Child (2008/2.106)
Madonna and Child (2008/2.107)
Portugal (2013/2.105)
New York City (1981/2.65.4)
Family Portrait (1960/2.82)
The Family (1949/1.204)
Mother's Kisses (1993/1.115.1)
Mother© (1985/2.19)
The Distaff Side (1987/1.166)
Maternidad (1951/2.50)
Mother and Child (2015/2.140)
Untitled (2017/1.555)
Untitled (2016/2.196)
Untitled (1983/2.23)
Daycare Documents (2016/2.184)
My Mother Myself (2020/1.216)

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