Jeannette Klute

Klute, Jeannette
Honeoye: Monday August 3, 2009 at age 91 at her home on Gulick Road. Predeceased by her sister Olive and survived by cousins and many friends. Jeannette was a pioneer in the use of color photography as an art form and among the first women in that field. She was born and grew up in Rochester, and started with Eastman Kodak Co. in 1939 as a technician in Kodak Research Laboratories. Later, she headed a Kodak photographic studio and laboratory and specialized as a nature photographer and in solving problems related to making high-quality color prints using the then-new dye transfer process.
One of her best-known works is Woodland Portraits, published in 1954 by Little, Brown and Company of Boston, a large book with 50 reproductions of dye transfer prints from her photographs of plants and animals in their natural surroundings. Little, Brown called it "one of the most beautiful books Little, Brown have offered in more than a century of publishing."
An exhibit of her photographs and paintings will be held at the Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua beginning Sept. 25.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday Aug. 8 at Honeoye United Church of Christ on Main Street, Honeoye. There are no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Honeoye United Church of Christ, PO Box 127, Honeoye, NY 14471; Ontario County Arts Council, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424; or to a charity of your choice.
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