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Women Holding Things includes the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as Kalman鈥檚 family members and other real-life people. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane鈥攂alloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat鈥攖o the abstract鈥攄reams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love.

Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women鈥檚 hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In visually telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women鈥檚 lives鈥攖heir tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear鈥攁s well as those that burden or haunt us鈥攔emain constant and connect us from generation to generation.

Here, too, are pictures of a few men holding things, such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Anton Chekhov, as well as objects holding other objects that invite us to ponder their intimate relationships to one another.

Women Holding Things explores the significance of the objects we carry鈥攊n our hands, hearts, and minds鈥攁nd speaks to, and for, all of us. Maira Kalman鈥檚 unique work is a celebration of life, of the act and the art of living, offering an original way of examining and understanding all that is important in our world鈥攁nd ultimately within ourselves.

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