This painting shows two women in a room. At the center of the painting, a young woman is seated at a desk, her hand resting on the back of the chair, opening a small drawer. Her back is to us, but her head is turned to the right, allowing us to see her in profile. She has pale skin and brown hair in an updo behind her head, and she wears a light pink dress with white details around the waist and neck. On the right, an older woman is seated on a bench, engaged in an activity with her hands, perhaps knitting or sewing with strands of pink fabric or yarn. She has pale skin and gray hair pulled…
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Mother and Mary

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862 - 1938)

1922

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 112.1 x 127.5 cm (44 1/8 x 50 3/16 in.) ; framed: 130.8 x 146.1 cm (51 1/2 x 57 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Belcher Collection, Stoughton, Massachusetts
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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