Solarized calla lillies
- Title:
- Solarized calla lillies
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
- Creator:
- Corpron, Carlotta
- Creation Date:
- 1948
- ID Number:
- 2018.095.030
- File Name:
- 2018.095.030.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Art and Photography
flowers - Measurement:
- 50.8 x 40.6 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Three creamy white calla lilies in bloom on a white background, defined by a delicate black line around the flowers buoying them on the blank expanse that would otherwise engulf them. The top flower is in profile, with its petal curling around toward the right. This gentle swoop is echoed in the placement of the two other blossoms on their sides below.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print.
- Cite As:
- Carlotta Corpron (American (1901-1988), Solarized calla lillies, 1948. Gelatin silver print, image/sheet: 32.7 x 24 cm; mat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm. Gift of Diann G. Mann, Class of 1966, and Thomas A. Mann, Class of 1964, 2018.095.030.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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