The Reading Woman 2: A Book of Postcards

Thirty color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection. Over sized postcards measure 6½ x 4¾ in.

Whether routes to escape or paths to enlightenment, books create enticing worlds so absorbing to the reader that other realities fade away. A painting of a woman immersed in a book suggests a story of its own: the woman is at peace, or not; perhaps she is silently thrilled by the words she reads. Is she stealing a moment from daily routine to indulge her love of literature? Is she studiously searching the pages for illumination? Is this book the one that will change her life?

Little wonder that the reading woman has appeared in art for hundreds of years. She is a beautiful enigma, an untold tale, a fragment of a life momentarily set free from its long, complex story. This book of postcards presents thirty quietly joyous studies of women at their books or letters.

Images
Micah Williams (American, 1782 1837), Portrait of a Lady, about 1820
Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859 1952), Fire Opal (Grace Mutell), 1899
Childe Hassam (American, 1859 1935), Lady Reading, 1898
Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862 1938), Girl Reading, 1909
Unidentified artist (American, mid-nineteenth century), Girl with a Gray Cat, about 1840
Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, dates unknown), Young Woman Reading a Letter, Edo period, c. latter half of the Bunka era (1810 1818)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, active in England, 1834 1903), Reading by Lamplight, 1858
Erastus Salisbury Field (American, 1805 1900), Margaret Gilmore, about 1845
Edward Wilbur Dean Hamilton (American, 1864 1943), Summer at Campobello, New Brunswick, about 1900
Edgar Degas (French, 1834 1917), Visit to a Museum, about 1879 1890
Kondo Katsunobu (Japanese, active about 1716 1736), Courtesan Reading a Book, Edo period, Kyoho era (1716 1736)
George Romney (English, 1734 1802), Portrait of Two Girls (Misses Cumberland), about 1772 1773
Migita Toshihide (Japanese, 1863 1925), Woman Reading a Letter, Late Meiji era
Mary S. Chapin (American, nineteenth century), Solitude, 1815 1820
Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829 1890), Reading Lesson, 1865
Winslow Homer (American, 1836 1910), Two Girls Looking at a Book, about 1877
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844 1926), Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading, 1876
Frank Duveneck (American, 1848 1919), A Girl Reading, 1877
John George Brown (American, b. England, 1831 1913), Reading on the Rocks, Grand Manan, about 1877
Yamazaki Joryu (Japanese, active about 1716 1736), Courtesan Reading a Letter, Edo period, about Kyoho era (1716 1736)
Jacques-André Portail (French, 1695 1759), Woman Reading, 1735 1759
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 1925), Simplon Pass: Reading, 1911
William Worcester Churchill (American, 1858 1926), Leisure, 1910
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664 1729), Woman Reading a Book, Edo period, early Kyoho era (1716 1736)
Eastman Johnson (American, 1824 1906), The Little Convalescent, about 1873 1879
Lilian Westcott Hale (American, 1880 1963), L Edition de Luxe, 1910
William Morris Hunt (American, 1824 1879), Girl Reading, 1853
Henry Bacon (American, 1839 1912), On the Open Sea The Transatlantic Steamship Péreire, 1877
Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl (American, b. Germany, 1855 1932), The Visitor, about 1925
Alice Ruggles Sohier (American, 1880 1969), Girl in Red, 1926


Pomegranate s books of postcards contain up to thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage.