New England Diary

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More blues in New Britain

Folded Cyanotype’’ (Cyanotype fluid on paper), by Fritz Horstman, in his show “Valley & Blue Light,’’ at the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art.

—- Image courtesy of the Artist

The show features Horstman’s U Shaped Valley sculptures and works from his series of Folded Cyanotypes, which are at once sculptures, prints and drawings that also fit comfortably into the history of cameraless photography.

New Britain in 1930, when it was an industrial powerhouse. Few factory buildings are left today.