Imaginary

Visual Arts

• Salvador Dali, Reading. Family Scene by Lamplight (1981)
• Marc Chagall, Fisherman's Family (1968)
• Pablo Picassso, Family (1965)
• Norman Rockwell, A Family Tree (1959)
• Paul Klee, Siblings (1930)
• Egon Schiele, The Family (1918)
• Boris Kustodiev, At Home (1914-18)
• Pavel Filonov, Peasant Family (1910)
• Pablo Picasso, Harlequin's Family (1905)
• Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Woman and Two Children (1901)
• Mary Cassatt, The Family (1893)
• Eduoard Manet, The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil (1874)
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema Roman Family (1868)
• Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Italian Family (1759)
• Antoine Watteau, The Mezzetin's Family (1717)
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Family Group (1666-68)
• Rembrandt van Rijn, The Holy Family Night
• Jacob Jordaens, Self-Portrait Among Parents, Brothers and Sisters (c. 1615)

Film and Stage

• Wild Bill: an ex-convict eventually comes to value his teenage sons

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

The Carter Family recordings include Wildwood Flower, Can the Circle Be Unbroken, Keep On the Sunny Side, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Tree and Anchored in Love. Here is a playlist.

Compositions:

• Dahl, Music for Brass Instruments (1944)

Fictional Narratives

Novels:

• Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies: A Novel (Catapult, 2019): “These vignettes are sharp-eyed, sharp-edged and carefully deployed in a multigenerational jigsaw that’s as evasive as it is evocative.”
• Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters: A Novel (Ballantine Books, 2020): “Charlotte Perkins, a widow in her early 70s, wins a contest for a Mediterranean cruise, and invites her adult children to come along. Behavior is atrocious. Family secrets are exposed. Reckonings and reconciliations are had.”
• Anne Enright, Actress: A Novel (W.W. Norton, 2020): “An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces”