My Prayer Choose a Framing Option:Brown 23 3/4 X 31 3/4 Still a child and yet

Still a child and yet a mother

” They had toiled all night and had caught nothing

but rather grew worse

This perpetuating

I think for Joseph

My Prayer Choose a Framing Option:Brown 23 3/4 X 31 3/4 Still a child and yetMy Prayer is a modern day interpretation of the timeless Prayer Children painted in 1940 by Bessie Pease Gutmann. The image of the little boy resonated with everyday people, and her painting became known as the boy with the trapdoor pajamas. My mother, a portrait artist, painted a dry pastel copy of Gutmanns work in the 1950s, wrote Cals Prayer across the bottom, and hung it over my eldest brothers bed. When commissioned to paint a childrens calendar,