gertrudeboylekanno

Takeshi Kanno & wife (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• trialsanderrors said:

  Boston Daily Globe, 18 March 1915: "AGAIN IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE: Gertrude Boyle's Family Call Her Insane. Married Eight Years Ago to Kanno, She Now Prefers Ishigaki. The family of Gertrude A. Boyle, sculptress, was willing to call it uncon ventionality when eight years ago she married Takeshi Kanno, a Japanese writer." One more of them coming up: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005016904/resource/

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  There's a small collection of papers related to Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno (1878-1937) at the California Historical Society: www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;Institution=Californi... She sculpted busts of Christy Mathewson, John Muir, Henry Cowell, Joaquin Miller, Margaret Sanger, and others.

• Richard Norton said:

  I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Farquharson_Boyle_Kanno

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  trialsanderrors and pennylrichardsca: Thanks for providing us with full name of "wife." We'll add this info. to the description next time we update.

• Wystan said:

  She would have been 38 in 1914. It looks like she is posing here as the ghost of someone's departed loved one, while Kanno depicts a mourner, bereft and crumpled at the grave.