children, as did mary cassatt, and she was also from philadelphia, where cassatt was from. she was born in 1863 and died in 1935. and before she studied at the academy, she went to the design school for women, and then she did study with eakins, and then eventually she meets an illustrator named howard pyle, and howard pyle is one of the premier illustrators in america, and he was working in the brandywine area, where the wyeths were. pyle had started a school at the drexel institute, and there were mostly women students, because as you can imagine, at that time, women were somewhat limited in what they were painting, usually portraits or still lifes and illustration, and even in her class was the famous artist maxfield parrish, so she certainly was in great company. she was mostly known for being a book illustrator. she illustrated well-known books, like little women, heidi, little mother goose. she was also a very well-known illustrator for magazines. she also did advertisements for ivory and procter & gamble and kodak and things like that. now, this painting that you've