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Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy
Reference Number
1978.1063
Extended information about this artwork
Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 161, fig. 41.
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/Art Institute of Chicago. p. 312, cat. 260.
Lorenz, Richard. 1993. “Imogen Cunningham: Ideas Without End. A Life in Photographs.” San Francisco, Chronicle Books. p. 117, fig. 52.
Martineau, Paul. “Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective.” 99. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2020
NY, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography,” February 29–May 31, 1992; traveled to Sacramento, California, Crocker Art Museum, June 16–August 14, 1992; and Laguna Art Museum, January 15, 1993–March 1993.
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective, Mar 8–June 12, 2021; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Nov 18–Feb 6 2022.
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