|
Sipprell, Clara |
|
|
Clara Sipprell (1885-1975)
|
| Birth Place |
Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Place |
Vermont |
| Born |
Nov. 1, 1885 |
| Died |
Apr. 15, 1975 |
| General Notes |
Sipprell was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, but moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1895. Sometime between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, she went to work for her brother Frank in his photographic studio. From 1910 until 1914 she exhibited her own work regularly at the Buffalo Camera Club. About 1915 she moved to New York City and opened a portrait studio. She later opened a second studio in Thetford, Vermont. Sipprell traveled widely, photographed many famous people, and received numerous awards for her portrait and landscape work. Her photographs were all done in the pictorial style, but she did not manipulate her prints as did many other pictorial photographers. Sipprell was a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America and the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and was active in photography until the mid-1960s. A volume of her photographs, <u>Moment of Light<eu>, was published in 1966. In 1990 the Amon Carter Museum organized a retrospective exhibition and published a catalogue, <u>Clara Sipprell, Pictorial Photographer<eu>, by Mary Kennedy McCabe, featuring 60 of Sipprell's photographs drawn mainly from the Museum's collection. Note: The Clara Sipprell Collection (P1984.1) contains 702 exhibition prints (included in the following entries) plus several thousand uncatalogued prints, papers, and ephemera. |
|
|
