Explore the science and process of cyanotypes with conservation scientist Julie Wertz as she demonstrates how you can make them at home. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Prussian Blue Pigment, Manufactured by F. Weber & Company, Inc. 1927. The Forbes Pigment Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Straus.6. https://hvrd.art/o/324195 + Paul Rowell, American, “Looking N. From roof of Forest Hills Station” from Boston Transit Collection, July 19, 1909. Cyanotype. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston Transit Collection, 5.2002.696. https://hvrd.art/o/143677 + “Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. New York City: Methods of Cheap Construction of Dwellings: Semi-Detached Two-flat Houses of Hollow Tile Construction: House No. 390. Standard Buildings Inc., Seventy East Fourty-Fifth St. New York City” from Social Museum Collection, 1913. Cyanotype. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection, 3.2002.1967. https://hvrd.art/o/153260 + Sheila Pepe, American, "Photogram Projection B. 4," 1998. Cyanotype with black ink, black and gray wash, over a cyanotype on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 1999.111. © Sheila Pepe https://hvrd.art/o/191744 + Anna Atkins, "British Algae Cyanotype Impressions," 1843. Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1843-10. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4af4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 --- MATERIALS LIST: + Potassium Ferricyanide (https://www.jacquardproducts.com/cyanotype-chemistry) + Ferric Ammonium Citrate (https://www.jacquardproducts.com/cyanotype-chemistry) + Paper + Glass (without UV Coating) + Foam Brush + Mixing Containers + Light-Proof Folder or Bag + Gloves + Cardboard + Water Tray + Water -- Speaker: Julie Wertz, Beal Family Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation Science, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies This video is part of our Harvard Art Museums at Home: Art Talks series in which curators, conservators, fellows, and graduate students share short, informal videos that offer an up-close look at works from our collections. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: Julie Wertz. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.