1. MFA VTS: Children through time
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2. Lesson 1

3. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Colgate Family
American 1866 Johannes Adam Simon Oertel (American (born in Furth, Bavaria), 1823–1909)
Dimensions
85.1 x 68.6 cm (33.5 x 27 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

4. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Untitled (Children playing with their father)
1959
Imogen Cunningham, American, 1883–1976
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 19.2 x 18.7 cm (7 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.) Mount: 36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

5. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Copley Family
about 1788 John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
Dimensions
52.07 x cm (20 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

6. Lesson 2

7. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Son
1987 Tina Barney (American, born in 1945)
Dimensions
48 x 60 inches
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
C-print
On View
Jeanne and Stokley Towles Gallery (Gallery 261)

8. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Samels Family
1788 Johann Eckstein (German (active in the United States 1794–1817), about 1736–1817)
Dimensions
64.77 x 76.2 cm (25 1/2 x 30 in.)
Accession Number
59.194
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

9. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Emma and Her Children
1923 George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
Dimensions
x cm (59 1/4 x 65 3/8 in.)
Accession Number
25.105
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

10. Lesson 3

11. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
A Family
Japanese Late Meiji era Artist Unknown, Japanese, Printer Sansei do (Japanese)
Place of Creation: Japan
Dimensions
Overall: 8.8 x 13.8 cm (3 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Collotype; ink on card stock

12. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Joseph Moore and His Family
about 1839 Erastus Salisbury Field (American, 1805–1900)
Dimensions
x cm (82 3/8 x 93 3/8 in.)
Accession Number
58.25
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

13. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Portrait of a Family in an Interior
about 1700 Nicolas Walraven van Haften (Dutch, 1663–1715)
Dimensions
46.4 x 55.5 cm (18 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

14. Lesson 4

15. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Nobleman with Two Children in a Landscape
Unidentified artist, Flemish, 16th–17th century (Flemish)
Dimensions
93.4 x 84.5 cm (36 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

16. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Family
1647 Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1684)
Catalogue Raisonné
Godfrey 46, II/vii (second of seven); L. 1296
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Etching, second state
Not On View
Collections
Europe, Prints and Drawings
Classifications
Prints

17. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Chinese Family
German about 1750 Made at Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
Object Place: Germany
Dimensions
14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration

18. Lesson 5

19. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Migrant Family, Texas
1936 Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)
Dimensions
Image: 21.8 x 30.6 cm (8 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.) Sheet: 26.3 x 31.9 cm (10 3/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print

20. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
Old Woman Cutting Bread
about 1655 Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675)
Dimensions
Overall: 28 x 22 cm (11 x 8 11/16 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on panel

21. What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can we find?
The Hollingsworth Family
about 1840 George Hollingsworth (American, 1813–1882)
Dimensions
x cm (42 x 72 1/8 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas