Two Callas

Photography and Media

1925/29

Imogen Cunningham
American, 1883–1976

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Imogen Cunningham
Title: Two Callas
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1925–1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Imogen Cunningham"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image: 30 × 22.6 cm (11 13/16 × 8 15/16 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: 1988.157.24

Lorenz, Richard. 1996. “Imogen Cunningham: Flora.” Little, Brown and Company. pl. 10.
Martineau, Paul. “Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective.” 123. 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)
Berlin, Germany, Berlinsche Galerie, “Station Der Moderne,” September 25, 1988–January 6, 1989.
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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