"Whistler's Mother" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871
Mum's are awesome Addictees!
Welcome to this week's Art Fix, the Mother's Day Edition.
Before we get into the art, here's a little history lesson (source: Britannica.com) on how it all started.
Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother had organized women’s groups to promote friendship and health, originated Mother’s Day. On May 12, 1907, she held a memorial service at her late mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia. Within five years virtually every state was observing the day, and in 1914 U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday. Although Jarvis had promoted the wearing of a white carnation as a tribute to one’s mother, the custom developed of wearing a red or pink carnation to represent a living mother or a white carnation for a mother who was deceased. Over time the day was expanded to include others, such as grandmothers and aunts, who played mothering roles. What had originally been primarily a day of honour became associated with the sending of cards and the giving of gifts, however, and, in protest against its commercialisation, Jarvis spent the last years of her life trying to abolish the holiday she had brought into being.
Check out our works by mums and mum inspired works. This one's for all the mums!
Medium: Colour silkscreen with fluorescent inks on Somerset 410 gsm paper, signed by the artist
Edition: #1/10
Year: 2013
Size: 105.0cm x 85.0cm
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2012
Size: 115.0cm x 104.0cm x 4.5cm
Medium: Acrylic and graphite on Genie Canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2019
Size: 122.0cm x 183.0cm x 4.0cm
Medium: Mixed media (acrylic, charcoal, tar, metallic enamels, foil, oil, pastel) on canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2020
Size: 120.0cm x 120.0cm x 5.0cm
Medium: Mixed media on canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2018
Size: 50.0cm x 50.0cm x 1.7cm
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2010
Size: 75.0cm x 75.0cm
Menindee by Lara Scolari
Our Aussie, abstract artist mum 🇦🇺
Medium: Mixed media (ink, pastel, oil stick, rope, gold leaf & varnish) on hand stretched cotton canvas, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2019
Size: 122.0cm x 153.0cm x 3.0cm [Triptych - each panel 122.0cm x 51.0cm x 3.0cm]
Medium: Hand signed, limited edition serigraph on paper
Edition: #4/15
Year: 2012
Size: 65.0cm x 65.0cm
Medium: Pen, ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2006
Size: 84.0cm x 59.0cm
Medium: Mixed media (ink, spray paint, acrylics, tissue paper, archival 240gsm metallic photo paper, copper leaf) on wood panel with acrylic framed edges, signed by the artist
Edition: Original
Year: 2021
Size: 100.0cm x 150.0cm x 2.0cm
Until the next one Addictees, be good to yah mum!
Blair & El xoxo