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depicts a woman and a girl who are both looking into a small circular mirror, from which they are both looking at the child's reflection. The mother's bright outfit draws attention to the child's nudity, which signifies innocence. The mother and child are connected with each other by their hand
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gestures and gazes towards the mirror. Two mirrors are shown in the painting, which create an arrangement of images within images, highlighting the main focus of the painting, that being the young girl's developing feminine identity under the help and care of a maternal influence, her mother.
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organised this exhibition. The entry fees and the sale of the pamphlets helped Havemeyer found the Woman Suffrage Campaign Fund.
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Cassatt is known for mothers and children being the subject of her paintings, and this theme is portrayed in this painting.
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was among many paintings by Cassatt which were involved in a 1915 exhibition, which raised money for the
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The sunflower depicted in Cassatt's painting is also a symbol of the suffrage movement, it is the
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encouraged the use of the Sunflower by wearing sunflower pins when campaigning the
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92.1 cm × 73.7 cm (29 in × 36 1/4 in)
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Mary Cassatt
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Mary Cassatt
National Gallery of Art
suffrage campaign
Knoedler Gallery
New York City
Louisine Havemeyer
Kansas
state flower
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
right to vote in 1867 in Kansas
List of works by Mary Cassatt
"Woman with a Sunflower"
"Mary Cassatt's Suffragist Symbolism"
"Mary Cassatt Artworks & Famous Paintings"
"Symbols of the Women's Suffrage Movement (U.S. National Park Service)"
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Mary Cassatt
List of works
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Lilacs in a Window
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge
The Tea
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly

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