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Untitled (Georgia O'Keeffe with Marie Rapp Boursault and her daughter Yvonne Boursault)
Untitled (Georgia O'Keeffe with Marie Rapp Boursault and her daughter Yvonne Boursault)
Untitled (Georgia O'Keeffe with Marie Rapp Boursault and her daughter Yvonne Boursault)

Untitled (Georgia O'Keeffe with Marie Rapp Boursault and her daughter Yvonne Boursault)

Artist (American, 1864 - 1946)
Date1923
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 5/8 × 3 3/4 in. (9.2 × 9.5 cm)
Support: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (21.6 × 14 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Van Deren and Joan Coke, 1986
Object number1986.59.1
DescriptionTwo women in swimming attire seated on a wooden dock by a lake. One of the women is holding a small child and is arranging the child's hair. The other woman (Georgia O'Keeffe) sits with her back to the mother and child with her head turned in their direction.
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This image is similar to FIC6.2009 which must have been taken at the same time but the mother and child are in a slightly different position and O'Keeffe is not in the photograph.  See FIC6.2009 for additional description

See object file for a copy of a Dec. 5, 1974 letter from the Witkin Gallery to Van Deren Coke authenticating the piece as a print by Alfred Stieglitz made at Lake George and verifying that it was obtained by the gallery from Marie Rapp Boursault.

 

A copy of the Museum of New Mexico Acquisition Proposal for this photograph (see object file) dated February 6, 1986, includes a later handwritten note in an unknown hand (possibly curator Steve Yates) that reads: -- accepted into the collection the day of Georgia O’Keeffe’s death 12:30 pm, Thurs., 3-6.86.

The photograph was taken at Lake George, New York, where the Stieglitz family maintained a home. Marie Rapp was Stieglitz’ part-time secretary at his gallery 291 beginning in 1911 when she was eighteen years old. She later married George Boursault and they had a child named Yvonne. This photograph was made during the family’s visit to the Stieglitz family compound at Lake George, New York. During the summer of 1923, Stieglitz made nearly fifty photographs of Yvonne, possibly as an exploration of his idea of the serial portrait, which would capture a subject in a succession of images from birth to death.         
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