Saturday, August 23, 2025

Gertrude Käsebier

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Portrait of Gertrude Käsebier
ca. 1904
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC


Gertrude Käsebier
Mother with Baby in Cradle
ca. 1905
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Mrs R. nursing Baby
ca. 1905
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Mrs. Turner and Two Children
ca. 1900
gum bichromate print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Mother and Child
ca. 1900
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Girl with Mirror
ca. 1910
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Caroline Caffin
1905
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Florentine Boy
1899
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Two Bulls
(Dakota Sioux hired as performer
with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show)
ca. 1898
platinum print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Zitkala-Sa
(Dakota Sioux hired as performer
with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show)
ca. 1898
platinum print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Baron Adolf de Meyer at Newport
ca. 1900
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
F. Holland Day at Newport
1903
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Chester Beach (sculptor)
ca. 1908
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
George Luks (painter)
ca. 1900
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (painter)
ca. 1911
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
John Sloan (painter)
ca. 1907
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Gertrude Käsebier
Self Portrait
ca. 1910
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

from Metamorphoses

Ye Elves of hils, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote
Doe chase the ebbing Neptune, and do flie him
When he comes backe: you demy-Puppets, that
By Moone-shine doe the greene sowre Ringlets make,
Whereof the Ewe not bites: and you, whose pastime
Is to make midnight Mushrumps, that rejoyce
To heare the solemne Curfewe, by whose ayde
(Weake Masters though ye be) I have bedymn'd
The Noone-tide Sun, call'd forthe the mutenous windes,
And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault
Set roaring warre: To the dread ratling Thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Joves stowt Oke
With his owne Bolt: The strong bass'd promontorie
Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt up
The Pyne, and Cedar.  Graves at my command
Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth
By my so potent Art.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), adapted by William Shakespeare (1612)

(Medea's invocation in Ovid becomes Prospero's in The Tempest)