Nancy and Molly Wolffe

John Kauffmann
Australia
1864 – 1942

Nancy and Molly Wolffe
1907
brown toned gelatin-silver photograph
Place made
Adelaide
Medium
brown toned gelatin-silver photograph
Dimensions
13.5 x 20.0 cm (sheet)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1988
Accession number
884Ph21
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.r., pen and ink "J KAUFFMANN/ 1907"
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
Australian photographs

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    Kauffman was a pioneer of the pictorial photography movement in Australia.  Known primarily for soft-focus atmospheric landscape photographs, he also created some naturalistic figure studies.

     

    In this photograph the artist has captured an intimate scene of his nieces: Nancy and Molly were the daughters of his sister Emma, who also appeared in his photographs.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016