untitled (woman bending over a child), Gertrude Stanton Käsebier

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Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, untitled (woman bending over a child)
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, untitled (woman bending over a child)
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier
untitled (woman bending over a child)
1899
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier
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 0.99213 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.