"?? I can't tell you why I love you...", c. 1900-1910

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Overall: 14.1 x 11.3 cm (5 9/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
overall: 14.4 x 11.6 cm (5 11/16 x 4 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert E. Jackson

Accession Number

2008.134.44

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, across recto in negative: I can't tell you why I love you but I do / When you first kiss the last girl you love / Cuddle up beside me dearie / Gee I wish that I had a girl / Oh I care not for the stars that shine / Whats the use of having any bed? / Are you sincere? / Oh I want some one to call me dearie / Please go away and let us spoon / come from Missouri / Does that hurt Gelia? / you will have to show me / Oh Bedelia Gelia! Gelia! / Does that feel like a scratch / Love me and the world is mine / Honey boy I hate to see you leavin / Wont you fondle me / Away down in my heart Ive got a feeling for you / Life is a mixture of sighs and frowns; lower center in black ink: ??

Provenance

Robert E. Jackson, Seattle; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Jackson, Robert

Exhibition History

2007: The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2007 - 2008, no. 25.