Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art

I recently visited the exhibition "Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art" at The Graduate Center, CUNY (City University of New York).

Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002), was born in Austria, and immigrated to New York with her parents when she was a toddler.

She got married in 1919. In 1920, she gave birth to her only child - her daughter, who later died a few months later as an infant.

Mother and child, 1920

Mother and Child, 1928

Mother and child, 1930s

Mother and Child, 1930s

Still Life: Mother, Child, and Flowers, 1940s

 Actually none of these paintings are in this exhibition, but I feel her sorrow of losing her baby for the next 80+ years.

A Photographer's Story

I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the ongoing exhibitions is Julia Margret Cameron's photography (August 19, 2013 - January 5, 2014).

In 1863, when Julia Margret Cameron (1815-1879) was 48, her daughter gave her a camera as a Christmas gift. After a few years, she became a photographer. Today, she is considered as one of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography.

Her models include Alice Liddell (1852-1934), and her nieces May Prinsep (1853-1931) and Julia Jackson (1846-1895). The description of one of Julia Jackson's portraits says that she was her favorite niece.

Pomona (Model: Alice Liddell, 1872)

Christabel (Model: May Prinsep, 1866)

Julia Jackson got married twice. In her second marriage, She had four children. Two of them later became the painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), and the author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

Julia Jackson (1867)