Untitled (Potted Plants on a Windowsill)

1909

Karl F. Struss

(American, 1886–1981)

Culture

America

Medium

platinum print

Measurements

Image: 11.5 x 9.4 cm (4 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.); Paper: 11.5 x 9.4 cm (4 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.); Mounted: 12.6 x 10.6 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in Memory of Tom Hinson, from Paul Hertzmann and Susan Herzig, Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, and Lauren and Michael Lee 2025.194

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Pictorialism was the first international movement to insist that photographs could be works of fine art.

Description

The intimate scale of this vintage platinum print—4 ½ x 3 ¾ inches—is the result of the artist’s choice of camera and printing process. Platinum prints were prized by the Pictorialist photographers at the beginning of the twentieth century for their delicate tonalities and the control they afforded the artist. These prints are made in direct contact with, and thus are the same size as, the negative.