(Rochester, New York, 1918 - 2009, Honeoye, New York)
c.1950
Dye transfer print
12 5/8 x 9 9/16 in. (32.0 x 24.4 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Mark Reichman
2006.266
While studying the effects of different variables in printing color photographs, Klute and Dorothea Petersen (the head of Klute’s print lab) discovered that modifying an image’s brightness could create expressive and abstracted, rather than realistic, scenes. They dubbed the resulting prints, which resemble paintings or drawings more than traditional photographs, “derivations.”