To Ellen


This blog is made to the honor of my grandmother Ellen Elisabeth Thomsen who was a modern woman .
She was born in Randers in Denmark 1895 and died in Copenhagen 1976.
She had long salmon red hair down to her hips. It was braided and put up with lots of hairpins to make it look short.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Red haired Mothers with child




Notice please that it more often happens,
 that the artist  place the mother to the left side of the picture than to the right..
It is a psychological effect , the world is to the left and home is to the right side. 
When the mother sits in the left side she protects .
 If she sits in the right she let the child have a certain freedom.
I speculated if  another  reason could be that we mothers carry the baby on our left side,
 so we have the right arm free to do things with.
So perhaps the few painting with mothers in the left side of the picture
 actually show left handed mothers?




Hans Thuar
German Artist 1887-1945








J. Mainberger after Von Kaulbach
Found in German Auctionsite









Marie Danforth Page
"Her littlest one"
American painter 1869-1940








Garibaldi Melcher











Rosalie Lorrain Gill
American Painter











Tamara de Lempicka









Gustave Klimt









Stanislaw Wyspianski
Portrait of Salomea Hankiewiczsowa










Poul S Nielsen
Mother and child
Danish Artist








Virgin Mary









Max Corneille








Mary Cassatt
"Sleepy"










Evert Lundquist
Mother and child
Swedish Artist










Julius Garibaldi Melcher










Edvard Manet










Mary Cassatt








Carlton Alfred Smith









Norbert Goeneutte








Giovanni Segantini










Giovanni Segantini
A remarkable frame.It looks like Leonardo da Vinci designed it.










Carl Wilhelmsohn









Mary Cassatt










Jacob van Doorth
Portrait of Anna Catharina Brandenburg











Joseph Raphael
"In the Garden"










Andrea del Brescianino

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