Clarence H. White

platinum print, the sitters' names in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse, matted, circa 1897

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Clarence H. White, April - May 1977, and traveling to:

New York, The International Center of Photography, July - September 1977

Granville, Ohio, Denison University Art Gallery, Clarence H. White: Photographs from the Newark Years, September - October 1979

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pictorial Photography in Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Academy's Salons, 1898-1901, March - April 1984

This print:

Symbolism of Light: The Photographs of Clarence H. White (Delaware Art Museum, 1977, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 7

Clarence H. White (Aperture, 1979), p. 27

Another print of this image:

William Innes Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession (Boston, 1983, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire), pl. 42

This platinum print, with a wide range of soft grey tones and warm highlights, is in generally very good condition. The surface of the print is lightly rubbed, and there is very minor age-darkening along the top of the left edge. Original deposits of graphite retouching are visible in the wall, the sitter's dress, and at the top right corner. The edges and corners are rubbed and have small losses. The reverse has minor surface soiling and two pieces of archival tissue adhered to the top edge. The photograph is numbered '002375' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse.
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