Percy MacKaye (1875-1956)

Doris Ulmann, American, 1882 - 1934

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about 1925

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 15.3 cm)

Overall: 14 1/4 × 11 5/16 in. (36.2 × 28.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from the Estate of David Hull and through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund

2007.78.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, on mat below image, lower right: Doris Ulmann

Published References

Ege, Arvia MacKaye, The Power of the Impossible: The Life Story of Percy and Marion MacKaye. Falmouth, ME: The Kennebec River Press, 1992.

Provenance

Percy (1875-1956) and Marion MacKaye (d. 1939), bequeathed (as part of the contents of their Plainfield house) to their children Robert Keith "Robin" MacKaye (1899-1992), Arvia MacKaye (1902-1989), and Christy MacKaye Barnes (1909-2001), 1956; Christy MacKaye Barnes (who took on her siblings' share of the house and its contents shortly after the bequest); given to her daughter Marion MacKaye Ober, 1989; sold to present collection, 2007.

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