Gertrude Kasebier
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
“Art Students, Paris (daughter, Hermine, Frances Delehauty, Charlotte Swith, Eduard Steichen)”,
1899, platinum print, ca. 1899, 8 1/8 x 6 1/8, Title and signature in pencil
on print verso. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Silhouette Portrait of a Boy in Profile, ca. 1905, gum print, ca. 1905, 8 1/8 x 6 1/4, mounted. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
“A Study”, ca. 1898, platinum print, 7 1/4
x 4 3/4, No inscriptions. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Untitled, Young Boy with Cat, ca. 1910, platinum print, ca. 1910, 8x6, No inscriptions. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
"The Red Man" CW No. 1
1903, ca. 1903, Camera Work photogravure, ca. 1900s
7 3/16 x 5 3/8.
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GERTRUDE KASEBIER
“Serbone” variant, 1901, platinum print,
8 1/8 x 6 1/4, No inscriptions. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Mother and Two Children, ca. 1900 - 1910, platinum print,
9 1/4 x 7 1/2, “Photo by Gertrude Kasebier, Provenance: Estate of Mina Turner, granddaughter of the artist.” typed
on sticker verso, mounted. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Woman with Gloves and Hat, ca. 1900 - 1910, platinum print, 8 x 6 1/8, No inscriptions. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1900 - 1910, platinum
print, 5 x 3 3/4, “Gertrude Kasebier” signed in pencil by the
artist in LL corner of the smaller of two mounts recto. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
Man Looking Out a Window, ca. 1900 -1910, platinum print, 8 1/8 x 6 1/4, No inscriptions. |
GERTRUDE KASEBIER
“The Heritage of Motherhood” variant, Agnes Lee, 1904, platinum print, 5 7/8 x 8, Signed “GERTRUDE KASEBIER” in
pencil verso, mounted. |
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Gertrude Kasebier, American, 1852-1934
Gertrude Kasebier, while studying painting in her late thirties, shifted her interests to photography. With a minimum of professional training, she decided to become a portrait photographer and opened a studio in 1897. Success came very quickly and she was recognized as a major talent by Alfred Stieglitz who brought her into the Photo-Secessionist group and reproduced a number of her photographs in the first issue of Camera Work. Kasebier, was well known for her work in portraits, employing relaxed poses in natural light. She emphasized the play of light and dark, and allowed the sitter to fill the frame so little room was left in the edges of the photograph. In addition, Kasebier was very creative and talented in the printing process. Her background in painting gave her the ablility to manipulate the surface of her photographs producing beautiful images that often have a painterly quality. The University Gallery at the University of Delaware is the repository of the largest collegiate collection of Gertrude Kasebier photographs. Barbara Michaels wrote a book on Kasebier in 1991 entitled, Gertrude Kasebier The Photographer and Her Photographs.
Bibliography:
William Innes Homer, A Pictorial Heritage: The Photographs of Gertrude Kasebier, WIlmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1979.
Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Kasebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992.
Barbara L. Michaels, Image vol 19 no. 2. photocopy of article, Rediscovering Gertrude Kasebier pp. 20-31, , Summer 1976.
Gretchen Garner, Art Journal, 51:4 (winter 1992). Gertrude Kasebier and Helen Levitt p.
Michelle Delaney, Buffalo Bill s Wild West Warriors
A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. |
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