About the Artwork
The Heritage of Motherhood
between 1900 and 1904
Gertrude Käsebier
1852-1934
American
Unknown
Platinum print with some additions by hand
Image: 9 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (23.2 × 31.4 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund and John S. Newberry Fund
F1987.3
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Gertrude Käsebier.
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Provenance
Janet Lehr (New York, New York, USA)
1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Katz, Melissa, R., ed., Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts. Oxford, 2001, p.105 (ill.).
Homer, William Innes. A Pictorial Heritage: The Photographs of Gertrude Kasebier. Delaware Art Museum, Newark, 1979, p. 19 (ill.).
"Notes on Recent Aquisitions," Bulletin of the DIA 64, No. 1, (1988): p. 59 (ill.).
Taylor, Susan. "The Heritage of Motherhood and the Agony of Agnes Lee," Bulletin of the DIA 75, No. 2, (2001): p.14 (ill.).
Tighe, M. A., "Gertrude Kasebier: Lost and Found." Art in America 65 (March-April 1977): p. 95 (ill.).
Tucker, Anne. The Woman's Eye. New York, 1976, p. 23 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Gertrude Käsebier, The Heritage of Motherhood, between 1900 and 1904, platinum print with some additions by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund and John S. Newberry Fund, F1987.3.
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