Gertrude Käsebier
Happy Days
About this artwork
This photograph has deliberately been taken at the eye level of the girl who squints against the sun in the right upper corner of the picture. This gives us a more immediate sense of the children enjoying the outdoors and picking wild flowers. Although they are standing in a group, each of them has their own preoccupation, not the least the little boy in the foreground who appears to be offering flowers to the girl facing him.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Gertrude KäsebierAmerican (1852 - 1934)
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title:Happy Days
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date created:1902
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materials:Photogravure
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measurements:20.5 x 16.6 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell 1985
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accession number:PGP R 195.4
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Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier
Born in Iowa, Gertrude Käsebier, nee Stanton, married and had three children before training as a painter. Her interest in photography dates from about 1893 when she went to Germany to study chemistry. On her return to America she establishes a studio on Fifth Avenue, New York. In 1902 she became...