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The image depicts two monochromatic close-up photographs of plant stems. One stem has deeply serrated leaves, and the other stem features tightly wrapped leaf or bud formations in a spiral pattern. The color palette is grayscale. The layout shows the stem with serrated leaves on the left and the spiral-wrapped stem on the right. Both images are enclosed by a beige border, and the number 71 is in the bottom right corner.
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The image depicts two monochromatic close-up photographs of plant stems. One stem has deeply serrated leaves, and the other stem features tightly wrapped leaf or bud formations in a spiral pattern. The color palette is grayscale. The layout shows the stem with serrated leaves on the left and the spiral-wrapped stem on the right. Both images are enclosed by a beige border, and the number 71 is in the bottom right corner.

National Gallery of Art · Print

a Sanguisorba canadensis; b Vincetoxicum fuscatum

Karl Blossfeldt

Date
1928
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image/plate: 26 × 19 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 31.2 × 24.2 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print · Photograph
Accession number
2006.133.34.71
Credit line
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Time span
1926 to 1950
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Portfolio and series

Portfolio
Urformen der Kunst

Subjects and terms

  • German
  • botanical
  • Plants
  • Design
  • Form
  • photogravure
Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

NGA object ID 225739. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.