Sea Breezes, ca. 1899

Sea Breezes. A windswept woman strolls along a pebble beach, ca. 1899 (Photo by Hulton Archive) | src Getty Images

Sipprell by Sipprell, 1900-1970

Francis J. Sipprell (1878-1958) :: Portrait of Clara E. Sipprell, ca. 1910. Platinum print. Burchfield Penney Art Center. | src l’œil de la photographie (broken link; linked to l’œil homepage)

Francis J. Sipprell (1878-1958) :: Clara E. Sipprell (1885-1975), ca. 1910. Platinum print. | src Burchfield Penney Art Center

Clara Sipprell :: [Fragment of portrait of Clara Sipprell], ca. 1900. Gelatin silver print. Clara E. Sipprell Collection. There is no mention on source whether this photograph was taken by Clara or Francis. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Clara Sipprell :: Lucy Sipprell, ca. 1913. Platinum print. Scan from color transparency. | src Smithsonian American Art Museum

Allen Sipprell (1919-1998) :: Portrait of Clara E. Sipprell, ca. 1970. Gelatin silver print. | src Burchfield Penney Art Center

Clara E. Sipprell was one of America’s most important pictorial photographers of the early 20th century. Born in Canada, she moved to Buffalo, New York after her oldest brother Francis opened a photography studio. She worked part-time as an apprentice, but eventually dropped out of school to work full-time at his studio, where she learned all different types of photographic techniques. She partnered with him in 1905, and after working together for ten years and having many successful shows, she opened a studio in New York City and eventually traveled all over the world.

Clara E. Sipprell’s use of a soft-focus lens and her reliance upon entirely natural light gave her photographs an atmospheric effect and moody romanticism. She was a successful portraitist, photographing such notable people as Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Frost, and Albert Einstein. However, she did not confine herself to that genre. Her landscapes, cityscapes, and still-life subjects were exhibited in national and international salons, galleries, and museums. There are over 1,000 photographs by Sipprell in the Amon Carter Museum collection, a gift from The Dorothea Leonhardt Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc. The (then) Burchfield Art Center presented a solo exhibition of her work in 1991.

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Stieglitz by Stieglitz

**Alfred Stieglitz** (1864 – 1946) :: Untitled [Kitty Stieglitz], 1907; Autochrome. | src The J. Paul Getty museum
Alfred Stieglitz made this portrait of his eight-year-old daughter Katherine (Kitty) while on vacation in Europe. Kitty sits on a park bench, clutching a bouquet of vibrant purple blossoms in one hand and holding a butterfly net in the other. (quoted from source)

Alfred Stieglitz · Mrs. Selma Schubart [Selma Stieglitz Schubart wearing Fortuny gown], 1907 Autochrome. | src The Met — **Alfred Stieglitz ·** Mrs. Selma Schubart [Selma Stieglitz Schubart wearing Fortuny gown], 1907. Autochrome. | src The Met

The subject of the photograph above is Stieglitz’s flamboyant youngest sister, Selma, wearing a Fortuny dress. Authorship of the image is uncertain: this plate was donated by Georgia O’Keeffe to the Metropolitan in 1955 as a work by Stieglitz; a nearly identical plate was donated to George Eastman House in 2001 by Edward Steichen’s widow as a work by her husband. [image below]