In 1912 she lent her artistic collection including this painting to Knoedler's Gallery in New York to raise money for the cause.

[3] In 1913, she founded what would become the National Woman's Party with the radical suffragist Alice Paul.

Havemeyer repeated the money raising art exhibition for women's suffrage at Knoedler's in 1915.

[5][6] The work depicts a mother engaged in the act of sewing while seated in front of a window.

A young child in a white dress leans on her mother's lap while gazing out of the picture plane toward the viewer.