Print: Illustration, Big Sister Feeding Baby "Playtime Mother" - Charlotte Becker, Vintage 1940s

The big sister has the bottle. The baby has no complaints. Charlotte Becker had the whole world figured out.

• Maker: Charlotte Becker (1907–1984)
• Materials: Paper
• Dimensions: 8" × 6" (portrait)
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage, 1940s–1950s
• Condition: New Old Stock (NOS), excellent — never used, no folds or damaged corners. Unframed. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

Titled "Playtime Mother," this lithograph depicts a big sister solemnly bottle-feeding a baby doll with the gravity and tenderness only a child can bring to the role, rendered in Becker's signature warmth. New Old Stock, never circulated. Two available.

Suitable for framing; we recommend framing to preserve it — a wonderful piece for a Charlotte Becker collector, a nursery decorator, a lover of mid-century American illustration, or anyone who grew up being the big sister — or the baby.

Charlotte Becker (1907–1984) was born in Germany and came to America at age five. She studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York — one of the most prestigious art schools in the country, founded in 1859 — and went on to create thousands of magazine covers, art calendars, advertisement prints, and illustrations, virtually all centered on babies and children. Her ability to capture the specific tenderness of childhood — its seriousness, its sweetness, its complete absorption in small things — made her one of the most beloved illustrators of her era. These advertisement prints were produced for use in calendars, thermometers, postcards, and hand fans — modest objects that preserved Becker's work for the homes of everyday America, and which are now actively collected.

Pairs beautifully with our other Charlotte Becker print, "Baby with Wire Fox Terrier & Kitten" (U2013), for a nursery gallery wall.