The Seer
Artist: William Sergeant Kendall (American, 1869–1938)
Original Dimensions: 37" x 31"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1906) "Kendall began painting pictures depicting the popular theme of a mother and child around 1900, shortly after the birth of his first daughter. These works were less portraits than evocations of domestic intimacy. In this case, the title "The Seer" endows the child with visionary powers and implies the purity and innocence of childhood experience. The identification of the sitter as the artist's second daughter Beatrice can be postulated based on a very similar work entitled "Beatrice" (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Both pictures were copyrighted on March 1, 1906. Later that same week, both pictures were exhibited in the annual exhibition of the Society of American Artists." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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