Kasebier, Gertrude
American (1852-1934)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Heritage of Motherhood
PUBLISHED TITLE: Heritage

ca. 1904 / print 1916
gum bichromate print
27.0 x 24.9 cm.
Gift of Hermime Turner
GEH NEG: 26714
71:0042:0033

NON-GEH NUMBER: 33

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 405.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"The Positive Image", US, NY, Garden City, University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, March 22 - May 2, 1987.//
"On the Art of Fixing a Shadow", US, DC, Washington, National Gallery of Art, May 7 - July 30, 1989. (Traveled).//
"Women Photographers in Camera Work", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, June 28 - September 8, 1991. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(on image) "Gertrude Kasebier 1916" verso-(in pencil) "33"

NOTES: Cataloged 1/87, DZ, updated 10/88. Image may date from ca. 1904, print is dated 1916. See Kasebier's original negative, IMP/GEH collection, 72:019:65 & 66. Variant image published in William I. Homer's --A Pictorial Heritage: The Photographs of Gertrude Kasebier--. See 72:19:65MP & 66MP for modern prints. Image has been identified as Agnes Rand Lee, and the "heritage" bitterly referred to is the sudden death of her daughter Peggy. [Anastasia Wilkes, Art in America, November 1992]

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
symbol