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Category: paintings of children

In honor of Minnie the cat

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

... who once pushed open a door that had heavy weights against it, to wake her oversleeping owner. You might think it was about food but ... it wasn't. Here is a Woman with a Cat, Auguste Renoir, 1875. Here is Julie Manet Holding a Cat by Berthe Morisot, 1889, printed by someone else in [...]

Posted in art in other museums, cats, national gallery of art, paintings of children

Children and other living things in Art

May 6, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

When I was four or five years old I lived near the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, at a time when you could still park on the mall on a Sunday afternoon, and walk to the museum in hot summer sunshine. My black patent leather Mary Janes slid on the cool floors of [...]

Posted in national gallery of art, paintings of children
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