Rineke Dijkstra

Ana Alvarez Errecalde

Eugene Carriere

Henry Moore

From very early on I have had an obsession with the Mother and Child theme. It has been a universal theme from the beginning of time and some of the earliest sculptures we’ve found from the Neolithic Age are of a Mother and Child. I discovered when drawing, I could turn every little scribble, blot or smudge into a mother and Child. (Later, I did the same with the Reclining Figure theme!) So that I was conditioned, as it were, to see it in everything. I suppose it could be explained as a "Mother" complex.

 

Theo van Doesburg

Dorothea Lange

Taryn Simon - A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII

Helen Verhoeven - Mother 7

"Event One – Detail 6 (Portrait with Sons)"  oil on canvas, 183 x 122 cm (72” x 48" inches), 2008

Tierney Gearon

Michelle Sank / Into the arms of babes

La Virgen del Pilerio

Ann Shelton - Mummy

Louise Bourgeois - Mother and child

Linda Fregni Nagler - The Hidden Mother

“0232,” a photograph from Linda Fregni Nagler’s series The Hidden Mother.
All 997 daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints that comprise the series are currently on view in an exhibition curated by Cindy Sherman inside Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) at the Venice Biennale. Because of the long exposure times required by early photography, children posing for portraits were often held still by adults hidden under blankets. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan/Zuoz, Switzerland