Fuschia [Fuchsia]

Dain L. Tasker, artist

1872–1964

Fuschia [Fuchsia], 1938

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 235 x 185 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 1/4 x 7 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2016.0026

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Dain L. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles in the early years of radiology. In the 1920s he became involved with pictorial photography and in the 1930s he began experimenting with X-ray photographs of flowers. In this example, the X-ray reveals not only the elegant blooms, but also embryonic flowers developing within their buds.