[1] Woman with a Sunflower was among many paintings by Cassatt which were involved in a 1915 exhibition, which raised money for the suffrage campaign.

The entry fees and the sale of the pamphlets helped Havemeyer found the Woman Suffrage Campaign Fund.

The mother's bright outfit draws attention to the child's nudity, which signifies innocence.

Two mirrors are shown in the painting, which create an arrangement of images within images, highlighting the main focus of the painting, that being the young girl's developing feminine identity under the help and care of a maternal influence, her mother.

[3] The sunflower depicted in Cassatt's painting is also a symbol of the suffrage movement, it is the Kansas state flower.