Family Group in a New York Interior, 1807, oil on canvas.

Francois-Jules Bourgoin, 1786-1821, French.  Winterthur Museum, DE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1846, oil on canvas. 

Attributed to Edward Hicks, 1780-1849, American.  Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco on loan to The Jewish Museum, NY in 2019

This version, one of more than 60.

 

 

 

 

The Third-Class Carriage, 1862-64, oil on canvas. 

Honore Daumier, 1808-1879, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

Garden at Sainte-Addresse, 1867, oil on canvas. 

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

The artist’s family in a garden facing the English channel:  nasturtium, geranium and gladioli.  Shown at the fourth Impressionist exhibition 12 years after it was painted.

 

 

 

 

The Monet Family at their Garden in Argenteuil, 1874, oil on canvas.

Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

A Pastoral Visit, 1881, oil on canvas. 

Richard Norris Brooke, 1847-1920, American.  Corcoran collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

An artist well known in his time for, among others, his genre scenes of African American life.

 

 

 

Infantry in Arms, 1887, oil on canvas. 

William Henry Lippincott, 1849-1920, American.  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

First Steps, After Millet, 1890, oil on canvas. 

Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

The Family, between 1890 and 1900; oil on canvas. 

Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910, French.  The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Self-portrait with Sister, c. 1892, oil on paper mounted on cardboard. 

Edouard Vuillard, 1868-1940, French. Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

 

Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1893, oil on canvas.

Edouard Vuillard, 1868-1940, French. MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

The Piano Lesson, 1917, oil on canvas. 

Henri Matisse, 1869-1954, French.  The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Interior, 1916, oil on beaverboard. 

Edwin Walter Dickinson, 1891-1978, American.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

Family Picture, 1920, oil on canvas. 

Max Beckmann, 1884-1950, German.  ?MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

Man, Woman and Child, 1931, oil and/or aqueous medium on canvas.

Joan Miro, 1893-1983, Spanish.  Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

Family Portrait II, 1933, oil on canvas.

  Florine Stettheimer, 1871-1944, American.  MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree),1936, oil and tempera on zinc. 

 Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican.  MOMA, NY.  Photo from the net

 

 

 

 

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936, gelatin silver print. 

Dorothea Lange, 1895-1965, American

 

 

 

 

Folk Family, 1939-40, silkscreen. 

William Henry Johnson, 1901-1971, American.  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Sunday Morning Breakfast, 1943, oil on fabric. 

Horace Pippin, 1883-1946.  Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri loan to the Jewish Museum in 2019

 

 

 

 

State Park, 1946, tempera on composition board. 

Jared French, 1908-1988, American.  ?Whitney Museum of (North) American Art, NY

 

 

 

 

Capricorn, bronze, model 1947, cast 1975. 

Max Ernst, German, 1891-1976.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

Three Nudes (The Aunts); 1905-1947; Mexican; oil on canvas; 1930.

Julio Castellanos,  Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

 

 

The Family, oil on canvas, 1955. 

Charles Henry Alston, 1907-1977, American. ?Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

The Family, 1962, paint and graphite on wood, sneakers, tinted plaster, doorknob, and plate; three sections. 

Marisol (Marisol Escobar), 1930-2016, Venezuelan born France.  MOMA, NY

The work was based on the photograph shown above.

 

 

 

 

Let us Now Praise Famous Men (Rauschenberg Family) and detail, 1962, silkscreen-ink print on canvas. 

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, MOMA, NY

The museum notes that Andy Warhol asked Rauschenberg if he could make a portrait of him.  This is the result made from one of several phtographs dating from the 1920s and 30s of members of Rauschenberg’s family in Port Arthur, Texas. 

Warhol’s title comes from a celebrated 1941 book of photos of the Depression in the south of the US of James Agee and Walker Evans.  Rauschenberg was not famous in 1968 and the title is taken as expressing Warhol’s regard for him.

 

 

 

 

The Brothers, 1964, oil on canvas. 

Will Barnet, 1911-2012, American.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

Women and Dog, 1963-64, wood, plaster, acrylic, taxidermic dog head, and found objects.

Marisol born France, 1930  Whitney Museum, NY

 

 

 

Madonna and Child, 1963, acrylic and gesso on canvas. 

Alan D’Arcangelo, 1930-1998, American.  Whitney Museum of (North) American Art, NY

 

 

 

 

Untitled (Family Portrait), c. 1968, pen and ink, graphite, coloured pencil, watercolour, gouache and crayon. 

Saul Steinberg, 1914-1999, American born Romania.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

A Farwell Feast, 1988, gouache on paper. 

Willie Birch, American born 1942.  ?Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

Tar Beach 2, 1990, silkscreen on silk and pieced cotton print. 

Faith Ringgold, American born 1930.  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Las Twines, 1998; painted plastic life casts, found materials, synthetic fabrics, jewellery, beads and wood.

Pepon Osorio, Puerto Rican born 1955. Smithsonian American Art Museum

 

The subject of this work is colorism: the practice of discriminating against members of a family because the colour of their skin is darker than that of their closest kin. This practice acts as a poison within a family, eating away at its structure and magnifying the race prejudice obtaining in the society at large.

The artist has a video running behind this work.  The twins’ mother has died and, fearing that they might be separated, they go in search of their father.  He denies paternity.

This work is Puerto Rican.  The same problem has always pervaded the US.

 

 

 

 

Family Romance, 1993, painted fiberglass, hair.  Charles Ray, American born 1953. 

MOMA, NY loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in 2022

 

The title of this piece alludes to a 1909 essay by Sigmund Freud about intra-familial conflict.  It also refers to the abuse of the term ‘Family values’ by George Bush I in the US.

This piece, which the museum noted suggests the inadequacy of ‘the archetype of the hetero-normative family’ for the variety of family structures today, points to the bizarre, emotionally upside-down familial world which is more common than we would like to believe. 

 

 

 

DER BEVöLKERUNG (To the Population), 1998-the Present

Hans Haacke, German born 1936, active the USA. From an exhibition in 2019/2020 at the New Museum, NY.

Haacke entered a design competition at the German Bundestag’s Art for Architecture program in 1998.  He proposed a garden in an atrium of the Reichstag building with the name DER BEVöLKERUNG (To the Population) in neon built into a rectangular trough.   This dedication is about all the people living on German soil irrespective of lineage.

 

The lettering is identical to the 1916 lettering of “DEM DEUTSCHEN VOLKE” (To the German People), which was mounted on the west portal of the Reichstag building.  The dedication is about German blood.

There he invited the 400+ members of the Bundestag to scatter a hundredweight  of soil from their constituencies, to be left untouched.

 A vote was taken amid virulent objections to the project and was won by a tiny margin of votes.

A wild biotope has sprung from the seeds present in the soil to which, it is believed, most parliamentarians contributed.

 

 

 

 

Family Sitting #2 (from the Family Sitting Series), 2005, oil on wood panel. 

Lien Truong born 1973. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

On September 13, 2009, a young man, not yet 20 years old, was cremated in the town of Olive in the Ashokan Catskills, NY.  He had died of cancer. 

Throughout his illness and his hospitalization until after his death, the community rallied to support him and his mother. 

Here the community accompanied his mother –  in a black top and long white skirt, holding his urn – to the scattering of his ashes.  Several were playing instruments.  Many were singing.

 

 

 

 

Untitled (Family in a Doorway), n.d; oil on canvas board. 

Andrew Turner, 1944-2001, American.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Seder, 2010, oil on canvas. 

Nicole Eisenman, American born France 1965. The Jewish Museum, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m Yours, 2015, acrylic on canvas 

Henry Taylor, American born 1958.   Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston loan to the Whitney Museum, NY in 2023

 

 

 

 

The Letter A, 2016, oil on linen. 

Alexandra Tyng, American born 1954.  Loaned to Woodmere Museum in 2021 by the artist. 

A self-portrait of the artist at the age of 5 when she realized that her parents had lives of their own: she would need to develop hers, too.

 

 

 

 

Homesick for a Home I Never Had, 2018, oil, acrylic and glitter on canvas. 

Arcmanoro Niles born 1989.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

 

Daniel Reading, 2019. oil on linen diptych. 

Doron Langberg, American born 1985.  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Tea, 2019, oil on canvas.

Salman Toor, Pakistani born 1983 Private collection on loan to the Whitney Museum, NY in 2020 

The artist is documenting his life as a gay man in his native Pakistan and in the eastern US.  Here tension with his family.

 

 

 

Spider in His Peaceable Kingdom, 2019 oil on panel. 

Corinne Dieterle, American born 1952 in the Juried Show in 2021 at the Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia 

The subject has lived for years in a tent on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

 

 

 

 

Mourning My Mother, 2020, oil on panel. 

Ann Mae Kelly exhibited in 2021 at the Pennsylvania Academy  of Fine Art, Philadelphia (no other information)

 

 

 

 

Chicken Soup, 2020, (scenes from a wordless story); ? media: 

Liang Zhao, certificate in 2020 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

Photo of a family of leopards. ?Location

Matt Taylor/ABACA; published in Le Figaro.fr in December 2024