Reading Woman Boxed Notecard Set

The reading woman has been a popular subject for painters through the ages. She is, in herself, an expression of important, unspoken cultural ideas. She is at leisure, and that she is using her leisure to read indicates that she is educated—no small feat in centuries past. Just as the reading woman sets free her imagination and becomes absorbed in the written words before her, so can we briefly enter the world depicted in each painting and take part in its narrative. Whether routes to escape or paths to enlightenment, books create enticing worlds that can so absorb the reader that other realities fade away. 

• total of 20 cards (five each of 4 images)
• Includes: Reading by Alberto Pisa, Alice in Wonderland by George Dunlop Leslie, A Russian Folk Tale by Leonid and Olga Tikhomirov, and Woman Reclining on a Bench by Carl Olof Larsson

Price: $20.00

Member Price: $18.00

** please note that when this item is out of stock we sometimes carry Pomegranate's other Reading Woman set, which includes 5 each of the following images: Albert Bartholomé (French, 1848–1928), The Artist’s Wife Reading, 1883; Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926), Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, 1895; James Jebusa Shannon (American, 1862–1923), Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle), 1895; Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933), Louise Tiffany, Reading, 1888