From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the
bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things
comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving
meditation on the beauty and complexity of women's lives and roles,
revealed in the things they hold. "What do women hold? The home and
the family. And the children and the food. The friendships. The
work. The work of the world. And the work of being human. The
memories. And the troubles. And the sorrows and the triumphs. And
the love." In the spring of 2021, Maira and Alex Kalman created a
small, limited-edition booklet "Women Holding Things," which
featured select recent paintings by Maira, accompanied by her
insightful and deeply personal commentary. The booklet quickly sold
out. Now, the Kalmans have expanded that original publication into
this extraordinary visual compendium. Women Holding Things includes
the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an
additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and
intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are
portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia
Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as
Kalman's family members and other real-life people. These women
hold a range of objects, from the mundane-balloons, a cup, a whisk,
a chicken, a hat-to the abstract-dreams and disappointments, sorrow
and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit
physically and metaphorically between women's hands: We see a woman
hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up,
hold her own. In visually telling their stories, Kalman lays bare
the essence of women's lives-their tenacity, courage,
vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of
the things we hold dear-as well as those that burden or haunt
us-remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.
Here, too, are pictures of a few men holding things, such as Rainer
Maria Rilke and Anton Chekhov, as well as objects holding other
objects that invite us to ponder their intimate relationships to
one another. Women Holding Things explores the significance of the
objects we carry-in our hands, hearts, and minds-and speaks to, and
for, all of us. Maira Kalman's unique work is a celebration of
life, of the act and the art of living, offering an original way of
examining and understanding all that is important in our world-and
ultimately within ourselves.
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