4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.

Happy Days

Artist Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852-1934)

Publisher Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1868 - 1949)

CultureAmerican

DateApril 1905

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.3 x 16.5 cm)

PortfolioCamera Work, No. 10

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds

Object number89.111.4

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a photogravure was originally plate no. IV in CAMERA WORK, No. 10, April 1905.

Label TextGertrude Käsebier American, 1852–1934 Happy Days, 1902 Photogravure published in Camera Work No. 10 (April 1905) Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds 89.111.4 Camera Work American, 1903–17 The trendsetting quarterly Camera Work reviewed all types of artmaking, but its primary goal was to promote photography as fine art. Each issue featured essays, many written by its editor, Alfred Stieglitz, and other photographers, as well as high-quality photogravure images, printed on tissue paper and carefully tipped into the journal by hand. These photographers worked in a style, known as Pictorialism, that was in dialogue with Impressionism and other modern art movements. Many images used soft focus and lighting to create a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere. Artists carefully organized the props, costumes, and poses of their models, and beautiful women in garden settings were an especially popular theme. Like the paintings in this exhibition, Camera Work offered idealized images of domestic beauty and encouraged the cultivation of gardens as spaces for leisure and creativity. Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years of Photography at the Chrysler Museum," Norfolk, VA, September 11, 1993-March 6, 1994. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010. "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 16 - September 6, 2015.