[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier. – Antique Wall Art
![[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/91/91a0c22d5c74-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier.
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Gertrude Käsebier made this gum bichromate print around 1900, a process that let her build soft, painterly tones by brushing pigment onto paper and exposing it through a negative. The subject is a woman sharing a quiet moment of reading with children, a theme she returned to often in her work. Käsebier, a Pictorialist photographer active in New York, used such domestic scenes to argue that photography could stand alongside painting as an art form. The gum process itself was labor-intensive, so each print was effectively unique, and the texture visible in the surface is part of its character.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gum bichromate ; 12 3/4 x 10 in., image 32.5 x 25.3 cm. |
| Genre | Gum bichromate prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Signed on print, lower left. Source unknown. |
| Subjects | Children--1900-1910. Women--1900-1910. Reading--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158158 |
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