How does this artwork elucidate its The sunflower?
The sunflower depicted in Cassatt's painting is also a symbol of the suffrage movement, it is the Kansas state flower. The Suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony encouraged the use of the Sunflower by wearing sunflower pins when campaigning the right to vote in 1867 in Kansas. Throughout the 20th century the colour yellow was used to symbolise the suffrage movement.
state flower Elizabeth Cady Stanton Kansas Susan B. Anthony right to vote in 1867 in Kansas