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Inscribed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Imogen Cunningham"; verso unchecked
Dimensions
Image: 29.5 × 22.2 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Credit Line
Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy
Reference Number
1988.157.21
Extended information about this artwork
Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 146, fig. 38.
Martineau, Paul. “Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective.” 106. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2020
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
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)
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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