Portrait of Honoré Willsie Morrow
Gertrude Käsebier
1912–1922
- 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.)
- Genre
- Photograph
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
America
About
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.
