Mary Cassatt, Reading the Figaro (Portrait of the Artist's Mother), 1878
Katherine Kelson Johnston
Louisine Havermeyer wrote in her memoirs Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (Ursus Press, 1993): "Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that [Mary] inherited her ability."
Here are other artists' mothers who have gave us their talents through their children:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1
(The Artist's Mother), 1871
Anna McNeill
Paul Cézanne, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1867
Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert
Berthe Morisot, Portrait of the Artist's Mother and Sister, 1869-70
Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1896
Marie Picasso y Lopez
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1897
Anna Tanner
Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, 1926-36
Gorky's mother died of starvation in 1919
The portrait is based on a 1912 photo
Happy Mother's Day,
Beth New York
aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director, New York Arts Exchange
