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Catherine Ricketts

Catherine Ricketts’s writing on the arts, grief, joy, and spirituality appears in Image, The Millions, Paste, and on the Ploughshares blog. She is currently at work on a book about motherhood and artistic practice. Find her on the web at catherinedanaricketts.com.

Features

Death’s vision

As my father was dying, I saw God’s radiant face more clearly.
Critical Essay

Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant

Her complex portraits reveal an alchemy of desire, pain, power, and weakness.

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