#75 The Child's Bath — Coaster

She had been studying Japanese woodblock prints for two years, and this is what came out of it: the high viewpoint looking down, the flattened space, the pattern piled on pattern — striped dress against flowered carpet against spotted jug — and no shadow anywhere. The subject was hers alone. No male painter of her generation was painting a woman washing a child's feet, because none of them was in the room. Art Institute of Chicago.