Clara L. White as a Child
Unknown Artist
1885–86
Medium
Matte collodion with hand-applied crayon and paint
Dimensions
image: 11.4 × 8.6 cm · framed: 15.4 × 12.9 × 1.8 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum
Accession Number
2024.17
About this artwork
Virtuoso painting is possible on this very intimate scale, yielding an image that lies on the border between the worlds of photography and the painted miniature. Because the subject’s name and life dates were written on the back, we have found out that White (1883–1987), who never married, spent her life in the vicinity of Winchester, Connecticut, and worked at least into her late sixties as a stenographer and later, secretary to the principal of a school.