In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we are spotlighting To My Dear. This beautiful woodblock print, is one of eighteen created by the Gearhart sisters, on view in MAACM’s 5th floor Children’s Gallery. In the late 1920s Frances, May, and Edna Gearhart collaborated to create a children’s book called Let’s Play. While none of the sisters ever married or had children of their own, they were constantly in the presence of children through their teaching. The project consisted of a group of 25 colorful and charming woodblock prints of children at play, many accompanied by a poem written by Edna. All three sisters worked together on this project, and both the poems and the prints were signed “The Gearharts.” Although the book was never published, apparently due to the stock market crash of 1929, the complete set of images was exhibited that year first at the Gearhart Studio, then at the Pasadena Public Library. A mockup of the complete book is now in the collection of the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.