untitled (woman bending over a child)

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, artist

1852–1934

untitled (woman bending over a child), 1899

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gum bichromate print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 20.3 x 14 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 x 5 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Hermine M. Turner

Accession number: 1973.0030

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Archive Label 2003:
Gertrude Käsebier was a highly respected figure in early twentieth-century photography. Her photographs were frequently and widely published in popular magazines like The World’s Work, McClure’s, and The Ladies Home Journal. In 1898, noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz declared that Käsebier was “beyond dispute, the leading portrait photographer in the country.” Although her pictures of women and children are best known today, Käsebier also did portraits of prominent men. Käsebier’s daughter donated a substantial portfolio of her mother’s photographs to the Spencer in 1973.

Exhibition Label:
"The Family in Photography," Dec-1997, Stefanie Vigil
Gertrude Käsebier was part of a movement known as pictorialism. The pictorialists romanticized everyday life. Käsebier was especially interested in the idealized relationship of mother s and daughters. This photograph of her daughter and granddaughter is alternately titled "True Motherhood.