For Mother’s Day 

Α recent drawing I made, and some images of the diverse ways photographers, known and unknown, and artists have perceived, sketched, carved or painted motherhood, and mothers and children:

American artist Alice Neel’s (1900-1984) painting of her daughter-in-law with baby; a photo by Greek photographer Voula Papioannou (1898-1990); a photo by an unknown photographer of Virginia Woolf’s sister, painter and interior designer, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), with one of her children in 1928; a woodcut, The Mothers, and a drawing by Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945); a painting from Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) Blue period.