Sketched loosely in charcoal on beige paper. A woman holds a naked young child on her lap.

Mary Cassatt

Mother Pulling on Baby's Stocking

Maker

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)

Title

Mother Pulling on Baby's Stocking

Year

ca. 1890

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

null

Dimensions

26.7 x 20.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Recto:signed in LR:Mary Cassatt

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

21.132

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 16: Intimacy

RISD Museum’s Manual 16 Embraces Intimacy

Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
-Carl Phillips

The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh
Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Jun 05, 2008 – Oct 26, 2008
French Drawings in the Time of Degas
Aug 19, 2005 – Jan 22, 2006
Selection 1
American Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection
Dec 30, 1971 – Jan 23, 1972
American Watercolors and Drawings from the 19th and 20th Centuries
May 20, 1947 – Oct 19, 1947
European and American Watercolors and Drawings from the Permanent Collection
Feb 26, 1947 – Mar 10, 1947

Image use

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
Mother Pulling on Baby's Stocking, ca. 1890
Graphite on wove paper
26.7 x 20.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 15/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 21.132

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