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Blessed Are We

Between road trips and turkey slices, take time to remember your blessings on this traditional U.S. holiday.

Doris Emrick Lee's print captures a familiar Thanksgiving scene in a country kitchen. Can you find the dog? He is just where you would expect—near the oven! Click on the image to enlarge it and find more amusing details. Lee said she made this bustling image from memories of her mother and aunts preparing a holiday meal in her family home in Aledo, Illinois.

Thanksgiving, the painting that inspired today's lithograph, won the artist a prestigious prize from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1935 as well as critical and popular acclaim. Lee, who documented everyday rural life, worked during the Great Depression. She is known for her murals commissioned by the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

Pictured: Doris Lee, 1905–1983, Thanksgiving, 1942, lithograph, 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.