A photograph by Alfred Steiglitz

[cali]

She was my mother's first cousin. I was named for her

[Mira]

1. Jawdropping.

Look at the perfect diagonal among other things. Thank you so much for showing it to us

[cali]

2. Thank you mira

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She was an amazing person. Her father was quite a well known artist and she was both an artist and caricaturist, and knew everyone in a certain circle. Thomas Mann called her his Gemma.


Self-portrait:



Caricature of a friend:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Greatest Page for this wonderful photograph! Thank you, my dear cali.

Gorgeous photo.

[cali]

4. Thank you, Peggy. I love this photo. I don't have the original

It's in a museum. Steiglitz was best friends with her father. He even accompanied Steiglitz and his wife on their honeymoon to France in 1894. There are quite a few family pictures taken by Steiglitz.

Here are a couple of her father's paintings. Along with Paul Klee he founded SEMA, with members such as Kandinsky. It was a group of artists taking a radical departure from the Beaux Arts tradition. He was American but spent much of his life in Paris and Munich.





I can't draw to save my life and there have been artists on both sides of my family for generations.

My paternal grandfather was also an artist. I have this lovely memory of sitting on his lap painting a rose garden. I have some of his paintings as well as others from artists on my mom's side.




sorry to post these in the photography forum and to go on like this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. These are wonderful paintings, and we love to see things like this here, my dear cali!

Thank you for sharing a bit of your history...

It's fascinating!

[alfredo]

10. I think paintings by old and modern masters can teach us a lot.

We can learn a lot from artist like Caravaggio, and Orson Welles.

Other visual arts do have a place here. No telling how much she absorbed from the artist around her, and how much of that appears in her photos.

[mindfulNJ]

6. Oh wow

So beautiful...thanks for sharing cali!

[alfredo]

7. What a classic beauty

[cali]

8. Thank you

very much.

She was so interesting. I have vivid memories of playing in the garden of her Mandeville Canyon Rd house while the adults nattered on. That they were Huxley, and Thomas Mann, Chris Isherwood and others in her circle, meant nothing to me at the age of 8 or so.

It's funny, there's a strong family resemblance among the women in my family that can be traced back in portraits going back around 200 years.

My mother had a life size painting of her great-great grandmother and sister, and people often remarked how much the woman in white- my whatever time great aunt- looked like one of my sisters. The resemblance when my sister was young wasstriking.

[alfredo]

9. The men in my family all have a mole in the same location in the small of our backs.

It appears that your ancestors had a better legacy to pass down.

Do you feel that your life was enriched by your exposure to your family's circle of friends?