Clara Wetzel
Egg Plant, 1926
Cyanotype
6 x 4 1/2 inches; mount 11 x 8 1/2 inches
With manuscript specifications mount recto, and Wentzel's signature and date verso.
With manuscript specifications mount recto, and Wentzel's signature and date verso.
Little is known about Clara Wetzel though in 1926, for a school project, she created and compiled a series of botanical cyanotypes, documenting an array of common species. Each print...
Little is known about Clara Wetzel though in 1926, for a school project, she created and compiled a series of botanical cyanotypes, documenting an array of common species. Each print is delicately trimmed and affixed to a sheet with details of each unique specimen. It’s unknown to us whether Wetzel was aware of Anna Atkins’ photograms or the Photogenic drawings of Henry Fox Talbot, but her photographic compilation of plant studies nods to this lineage and the intersection of science and photography.