Annette Rosenshine, San Francisco
Artist
Ansel Adams
(American, 1902 - 1984)
Datecirca 1932
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (21.6 x 14.6 cm)
Support: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Support: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Margaret McKittrick, 1968
Object number2225.23PH
DescriptionHead and shoulder profile of women with grey hair, looking to the right, she wears a long dangled ear ring and rest her chin on fingers of her right hand, her middle finger rests in center of cheekeMuseum Notes
Annette Rosenshine (1880-1971) was an artist known for her miniature sculptures. She was born in San Francsico and studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. After the 1906 earthquake and fire, she went to Paris for two years where she associated with Matisse, Picasso, and the Fauvist painters. Upon returning to San Francisco, she gave up her art career for social work and developed an interest in psychoanalysis. After meeting Karl Jung in Europe, who encouraged her artwork, she began making small masks and grotesque figures. At the same portrait sitting, Adams made a photograph of Rosenshine's hands holded a beaded necklace (see Smithsonian American Art Museum 1996.97). In 1968, he also made a close view of her face. Rosenshine's unpublished memoir, "Life is Not a Paragraph," is in the collection of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She gives a detailed account of her early life in San Francisco and the time she spent in Paris with her cousin Alice B. Toklas.
On View
Not on view
Ansel Adams
1937 (printed 1981)
