Marie Rapp
1913
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24 x 18.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.365
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Stieglitz Estate Number
91E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
386
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 386.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on print, center verso, in graphite: Strathmore
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 91 E
Wikidata ID
Q64034877
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A young voice student, Marie Rapp worked as Stieglitz’s secretary at 291 from 1911 to 1917, when the gallery closed. She married George Boursault, son of a member of the Photo-Secession, and they, with their young daughter Yvonne, visited Stieglitz and O’Keeffe at Lake George in the early 1920s (see Key Set number 861).
A variant of this image came up for auction at Sotheby’s (6 October 1999, lot 69), accompanied by the note from Marie Rapp: “This portrait of me by Alfred Stieglitz was taken at ‘291’ in 1913.”
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.695.18 (inscribed: 291 / 1913)