Under the Gables

I have collected many photographs of people who live in Appalachia, and one day as I was looking through them, I was struck by how beautiful...

Pioneer ladies before a sod house on the Great Plains. In her O Pioneers! Willa Cather captured the efforts to create real homes of ...

The Lacemaker by Johannes Vermeer, 1669-70. In you are in England or heading that way, you have 15 days to see the exhibition at the Fitzwil...

Holy Family at Supper, from the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves. In the United States, most mothers work: In 2007, the labor force part...

Some of you may remember my disgruntled post of a while back titled: "Where's the Milkman?" I noted that my mother, a suburba...

Scrubwoman, by John French Sloan, 1910-1911 (Click on the paintings to get a better view.) Here is a painting of scrub women working at the ...

At the Florist by Childe Hassam, 1889 In Paris in the years 1888 and 1889, Childe Hassam created a series of paintings of flower sellers at...

Here is a painting by the American impressionist painter, Childe Hassam, titled La Bouquetiere and la Latiere . The scene is likely Paris; t...