In her work, Paula Modersohn-Becker often portrayed mothers and children, rendered in broad planes of color, heavy contour lines, and simplified anatomy. Her figures feel sculptural in their weight and grounded in their bodily presence. Send this to the mother or mother figure who keeps you rooted in reality, who tells you things as they are, but has always shielded you from the harder edges of the world.

Courtesy of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum