From Bluffs at Pine Bend Looking Downstream from the album Views on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minn and St. Louis, Mo., 1883-1891

From Bluffs at Pine Bend Looking Downstream

from the album Views on the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minn and St. Louis, Mo., 1883-1891
1891
Artist
Henry Bosse, American, 1844-1903
Born: Saxony, Germany
Work Locations: Rock Island, IL
Locale
Minnesota
Country
United States
Object
photograph
Medium
Cyanotype
Accession Number
2008.864
Credit Line
Gift arranged by Mr. Darren K. Quintenz of Quintenz & Company
Henry Bosse (American). From Bluffs at Pine Bend Looking Downstream. 1891. Cyanotype. Gift arranged by Mr. Darren K. Quintenz of Quintenz & Company. 2008.864.
Dimensions
image height: 10 1/2 in, 26.6700 cm; image width: 13 1/2 in, 34.2900 cm; height: 14 1/2 in, 36.8300 cm; width: 17 1/4 in, 43.8150 cm; mat height: 16 in, 40.6400 cm; mat width: 20 in, 50.8000 cm
Inscription
Titled and dated in ink on lower front, numbered "45" in ink on upper front
Department
Photography
Collection
Photography

Like many—probably most—photographers, Henry Bosse was self-taught. He probably learned the cyanotype process in his capacity as a draftsman for the Army Corps of Engineers, simply because cyanotype was used to make blueprints. He was soon using his camera to document the Corps’ engineering works. Many of Bosse’s photographs are straightforward descriptions, but others, like this, are sensitive, picturesque views that convey a gentle and sometimes melancholy sense of the Midwestern landscape.

Exhibition History
  • "Exposure: Photos from the Vault"—Denver Art Museum, 4/30/2010 - 10/31/2010