Today is Celebrate Pregnant Women Day!
Those who carry and nurture the miracle of new life deserve appreciation! Celebrate expectant mothers—and their families—today.
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Expecting Joy
Today is Celebrate Pregnant Women Day!
Those who carry and nurture the miracle of new life deserve appreciation! Celebrate expectant mothers—and their families—today.
Artist William H. Johnson captures a suitable scene in today's painting. Created during World War II, it depicts a soldier and his pregnant wife on the threshold of their new life together.
In 1938, war in Europe forced American artist William H. Johnson to flee Scandinavia and return to the United States with his Danish wife Holcha Krake. At that time, he abandoned his academic painting techniques and began to cultivate a flat, primitive style. Many of these later paintings, including Honeymooners, reflected his new appreciation of his heritage in African American scenes and subjects.
Source: Regenia A. Perry. Free within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art in Association with Pomegranate Art Books, 1992).
Pictured: William H. Johnson (1901–1970), Honeymooners, about 1941–1944, oil on plywood, 26 x 28 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation.