Amanta Scott

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

Weeping Women

Pietá

Bartolomeo Ferrari da Antonio Canova, 1830, sculpture, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

Demeter Mourning for Persephone

Demeter Mourning for Persephone

Evelyn De Morgan, 1855-1919, De Morgan Centre, London, UK

Girl with Tear I

Girl with Tear I

Roy Lichtenstein, 1977, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift of the artist, by exchange, 1980

Abyssinian Slave

Abyssinian Slave

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, bronze sculpture, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Sorrow

Vincent Van Gogh, 1882

Guernica

Pablo Picasso, 1937, Cubism, Surrealism: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain

A Woman Weeping

A Woman Weeping

Rembrandt
1644

Crying woman Pablo Picasso (La femme qui pleure)

Crying woman Pablo Picasso (La femme qui pleure)

Pablo Picasso, 1937, Surrealism

Femme en pleurs

Femme en pleurs

Picasso
1937

Weeping Woman

Fernando Botero
1949

Weeping Woman with Handkerchief

Weeping Woman with Handkerchief

Picasso
1937

Crying girl

Roy Lichtenstein
1964

The grieving women

The grieving women

Albert Bloch

Skrik (The Scream)

Skrik (The Scream)

Edvard Munch, 1910, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway

The Sick Child (later) (Det syke barn)

The Sick Child (later) (Det syke barn)

Edvard Munch, 1907, National Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Rich Gifts Wax Poor When Lovers Prove Unkind

Rich Gifts Wax Poor When Lovers Prove Unkind

John William Godward, 1916

Mater Dolorosa

Rembrandt, 1660

A suffering nude

A suffering nude

Amedeo Modigliani, c.1909, Paris, France

Crying woman (La femme qui pleure)

Crying woman (La femme qui pleure)

Pablo Picasso, 1937, Naïve Art (Primitivism)

Crying woman (La femme qui pleure)

Crying woman (La femme qui pleure)

Pablo Picasso, 1937, Surrealism

Young Tormented Girl (Jeune fille tourmentée)

Young Tormented Girl (Jeune fille tourmentée)

Pablo Picasso, c.1939; France, Cubism, Surrealism

The flood (L'Inondation)

The flood (L'Inondation)

Rene Magritte, 1928; Paris, France, Surrealism

Panthea stabbing herself with a dagger, after the death of her husband Abradates

Panthea stabbing herself with a dagger, after the death of her husband Abradates

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640): Louvre Museum

The Mater Dolorosa

The Mater Dolorosa

Aelbrecht Bouts (1451/1460–1549): Fogg Museum

Mother of Sorrows

Mother of Sorrows

Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Musé des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Scream

Nuri Iyem, Social Realism

Pietá

Demeter Mourning for Persephone

Guernica

Crying woman Pablo Picasso (La femme qui pleure)

Crying girl

The grieving women

The Sick Child (later) (Det syke barn)

Crying woman (La femme qui pleure)

Young Tormented Girl (Jeune fille tourmentée)

Scream

So many images of women weeping . . . one wonders why.

I don’t believe it is solely a testament to women’s overall sensitivity and emotional nature.

Given the history of treatment of women over the centuries, we have good reason to weep.