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Motherhood has been a topic of many famous paintings and sculptures throughout history. Both ancient and modern works of art address the miracle of life and brings up important questions for future generations regarding what family means and will continue to mean in the future. Mothers deserve to be honoured everyday throughout the year
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Einar Jónsson (Iceland, 1874-1954) Light and shade Einar Jónsson Museum garden in Reykyavik
Einar Jónsson (Iceland, 1874-1954) Light and shade detail
Einar Jónsson (Iceland, 1874-1954) Protection
Einar Jónsson (Iceland, 1874-1954) Protection (fragment)
'Mothers' Garden' in Reykjavik Nina Sæmundsson (Iceland, 1892-1965) Motherly Love (1928) Reykjavik Art Museum
Motherly Love (1928) by Nina Sæmundsson (Icelandic,1892-1965) 'Mothers' Garden' in Reykjavik
Asmundur Sveinsson (Iceland, 1893-1982) Moorland flight in the Asmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Garden, Reykjavik, Iceland
Asmundur Sveinsson (Iceland, 1893-1982) Moorland flight
Asmundur Sveinsson (Iceland, 1893-1982) Moorland flight 1933
Asmundur Sveinsson - Adoration Asmundur Sveinsson (Iceland, 1893-1982) Worship 1958
According to the Icelandic Sagas, around 1002 CE, an Icelandic immigrant, Gudrid “the Far Traveler” settled in Eastern Canada, where she gave birth to a son, Snorri, the first recorded birth to a European traveler in the Americas. Gudrid had traveled 3,000 miles in small viking sailing and rowing vessels across the stormy north Atlantic to reach her new home…
Asmundur Sveinsson (Iceland, 1893-1982) Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, AKA Gudrid the Far-Travelled
There is a statue created by the sculptor Asmundur Sveinsson in 1938 for the 1939 New York World's Fair of Gudrid on display at Glaumbær, in Iceland. Other copies of this statue are on display in Laugarbrekka in the Snæfellsnes peninsula on Iceland and in Ottawa, Canada
Gudrid appears in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, known collectively as the Vinland sagas Gudrid and her son In Laugarbrekka, on the south side of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in West-Iceland
Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and child, 1909
Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and child, 1909
Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and children Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway
Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and child Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway
Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and children Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway
Per Ung (Norwegian, 1933-2013) The wartime mother bronze sculpture on Nordnes in Bergen
Per Ung (Norwegian, 1933-2013) Mother and child - Ekebergparken, Oslo, Norway
Per Ung (Norwegian, 1933-2013) Young mother
Per Ung (Norwegian, 1933-2013) The monument to the mothers of Kirkenes
David Wretling (Sweden, 1901-1986) Mother and child, 1958 Umedalen Sculpture park
David Wretling (Sweden, 1901-1986) Mother and child
John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939) sculpture 'Adrift' in Manchester
John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939) sculpture 'Adrift' in Manchester
John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939) 'Adrift’ Bronze sculpture of a family clinging to a raft in a stormy sea
John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939) 'Adrift’ Bronze sculpture of a family clinging to a raft in a stormy sea
Michael Snowden (Scottish, 1930) Central Way Car Park, Cumbernauld, Glasgow
Patricia Finch (1921–2001) Mother and child Queen Square Gardens, Bloomsbury, Camden London
Patricia Finch (1921–2001) Memorial for Andrew Meller in Queen Square, London
Patricia Finch (1921–2001) Memorial for Andrew Meller in Queen Square, London
Aleix Barbat and Ian Homer Walters (1930–2006) Bronze woman in honour of black women in Britain, Stockwell Memorial Garden, London
Aleix Barbat and Ian Homer Walters (1930–2006) Bronze woman Stockwell Memorial Garden, London
Konstantin Zinich (Russian) Mother and child at Kemerovo
Konstantin Zinich (Russian) Mother and child at Kemerovo
Mother and child at Kemerovo Konstantin Zinich (Russian)
Oleksandr Tokarev Odessa Sailor's Wife Monument 2002
Karin Jonzen FRBS (1914-1998) Karin Jonzen (1914-1998) Mother and child Installed on the London County Council’s Sydenham Hill estate in 1960
Mahesh Anjarlekar (India) Mother and child
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