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

Artist Alfred Stieglitz (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.
eMuseum Notes

Emuseum Notes

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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