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Portrait of Honoré Willsie Morrow
About the Artwork
This bust-length portrait of Honoré Willsie Morrow demonstrates how Käsebier brought an artistic attitude to even straightforward commercial portrait commissions. Morrow (1880–1940) was a successful author of fiction and nonfiction and a magazine editor. Käsebier’s portrait, while appropriately demure, nonetheless conveys the sitter’s intelligence, energy, and directness, enlivening a formulaic composition through pose, framing, and highlighting.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on recto of primary mount: “Gertrude Kasebier (signed)”; Written in pencil on verso of secondary mount: “41167”
Provenance
2000-2022: (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), sold to Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, c. 2000 2000-2022: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH September 12, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852–1934)
- Date
- c. 1917
- Medium
- platinum print
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.6 x 9.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 12.6 x 9.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Primary mount: 14.2 x 10.5 cm (5 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Secondary mount: 23 x 18 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Accession no.
- 2022.115
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Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/150
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012645
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