The Three Graces, (Mabel Luhan, Frieda Lawrence and Dorothy Brett)
Artist
Cady Wells
(American, 1904 - 1954)
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions9 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (22.9 x 39.4 x 3.8 cm)
Other (envelope): 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19.1 x 14 cm)
Other (envelope): 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19.1 x 14 cm)
ClassificationsBook
Credit LineGift of the Cady Wells Estate, 1982
Object number1982.16.48bf
DescriptionAlbum of snapshots glued to black paper, leather or leather like binding. A white envelope containing two photographs of the same subject. Each is of three women looking at the camera smiling or laughing. They are seated on the steps of a cabin. The women are identified as: Mabel Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, Lady Brett. The envelope is from the U.S. Government printing Office. Top two photos in attached image. The written identification is behind each woman's image, therefore, Mabel Dodge, seated on left, is identified in pencil on the right.eMuseum Notes
A photograph that Wells titled The Three Graces, which includes Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, and Dorothy Brett. They sit on the steps of the home at Lawrence Ranch, where Frieda and D.H. Lawrence lived in Taos. In the full page photo, the images are the verso (left) and recto (right) images of a loose photograph from scrapbook one, as well as a smaller, unnumbered, image of the same three women.
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