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Minna Keene, Cape Malay Woman

Minna Keene, Cape Malay Woman, 1906 carbon print flush mounted to single-ply period board, mounted to additional single-ply period support 25.40 x 19.05 cm (print/board); 28.89 x 22.23 cm (support). Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020 © The Estate of Minna Keene / Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Minna Keene, Cape Malay Woman
Minna Keene, Pomegranates

Minna Keene, Pomegranates, circa 1910 carbon print mounted to two-ply period board 33.66 x 22.86 cm (print); 41.91 x 34.29 cm (board). Art Gallery of Ontario Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020© The Estate of Minna Keene / Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Minna Keene, Pomegranates
Silver bromide print of children around a wagon

Minna Keene, Untitled, circa 1906 Silver bromide print on single-ply paper flush-mounted to two-ply period support, additionally mounted to two-ply period support, some image details reduced by hand, some image details added by hand 20.95 x 26.04 cm (print); 22.23 x 27.31 cm (support). Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020 © The Estate of Minna Keene / Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Minna Keene, Untitled
Minna Keene, Cape Town from Platt Klip

Minna Keene, Cape Town from Platt Klip [sic], circa 1906 carbon print on two-ply support mounted to two-ply period support, some image details reduced by hand, some image details added by hand 21.59 x 33.66 cm (print); 23.50 x 35.56 cm (support). Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020 © The Estate of Minna Keene / Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Minna Keene, Cape Town from Platt Klip
Minna Keene, carbon print of banjo player and others at a table

Minna Keene, Untitled, circa 1908 carbon print on single-ply paper, some image details reduced by hand, some image details added by hand 24.77 x 29.85 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020 © The Estate of Minna Keene / Courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Minna Keene, Untitled

Our Department of Photography has acquired a suite of five historical photographs taken in Cape Town, South Africa in the 1900s by the German-born, self-taught  photographer (and the only Canadian woman to be made a Royal Fellow of the Photographic Society), Minna Keene. These are the first works by this pioneering female artist to enter the AGO Collection.