The Edge of the Wood - Evening (Letitia Felix) (1900): Art, History and Details

The Edge of the Wood - Evening (Letitia Felix) (1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Clarence H. White experimented with an array of artistic media that blurred the lines between photography, drawing, and printmaking. Here are two examples of that experimentation: a platinum print on the left and a photogravure on the right. White was likely drawn to both processes for their broad tonal range and interaction of image and paper. To create platinum prints, a light-sensitive liquid emulsion is applied to and absorbed by the paper. The image forms within the paper’s fibers, resulting in a matte appearance. Because photogravures are printed like an etching, the image is formed with ink impressed onto the paper’s surface.

Object facts

• Title: The Edge of the Wood - Evening (Letitia Felix)
• Date: 1900
• Creator attribution: Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925)
• Culture: America
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: photogravure
• Dimensions: Image: 14.6 x 10 cm (5 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.); Paper: 22.7 x 17.8 cm (8 15/16 x 7 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.); Framed: 30.5 x 35.6 cm (12 x 14 in.)
• Collection: PH - Photogravure
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1989.405

Collection credit

Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.