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Darnel

1909

Bertha Evelyn Jacques

Associated Names

Bertha Evelyn Jaques

Artist, American, 1863 - 1941

This blue-toned print shows a cluster of long, thin plants with thin leaves and what look like seed heads in pale blue against a dark blue background. The plants are vertically oriented, and the different stalks have varying heights.

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Artwork overview

Medium

cyanotype mounted on laid paper
Credit Line

The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography
Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 42 x 12 cm (16 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
mount: 47.6 x 30.5 cm (18 3/4 x 12 in.)
Accession Number

1999.95.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Isaacs Photographs, Malvern, PA; purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

Exhibition History

2009

In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

all on mount: lower left in brown ink: Darnel. / Chicago-55th St. / July-09-

Wikidata ID

Q64145267

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