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Imogen Cunningham

Triangles

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150,000 - 250,000 USD

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Imogen Cunningham

1883 - 1976

Triangles


gelatin silver print, framed, a Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition label on the reverse, 1928

image: 4 by 2 ⅞ in. (10.16 by 7.3 cm.)

frame: 17 ¼ by 14 ¼ in. (43.8 by 36.2 cm.)

The photographer to Alice Breuer Erskine, circa 1929, Mills College alumna and lifelong friend

Acquired from the above, late 1980s

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, April - August 1999
Christina Berding, 'Imogen Cunningham and the Straight Approach,' Modern Photography, May 1951, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 39

Louis Stettner, The History of the Nude in American Photography: 1840 to the Present (Greenwich, 1966), p. 84

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs (Seattle, 1970), cover and pl. 12

Vintage Photographs by Women of the 20’s and 30’s (Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1988), title page

Constance Sullivan, ed., Women Photographers (New York, 1990), pl. 36

Thomas Weston Fels, Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography 1849-1950 (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992), p. 139

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: Ideas Without End, A Life in Photographs (San Francisco, 1993), pl. 53

Imogen Cunningham: The Modernist Years (Tokyo, 1993), unpaginated

Imogen Cunningham: The Poetry of Form (Frankfurt, 1993), p. 40

Christian A. Peterson, After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955 (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997)pl. 61

Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography (New York, 1997), p. 431

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: On the Body (Boston, 1998), pl. 44

An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999), p. 86

Manfred Heiting, ed., Imogen Cunningham: 1883-1976 (Köln, 2001), p. 46

Marianne Karabelnik, ed., Stripped Bare: The Body Revealed in Contemporary Art (New York, 2004), p. 52

Nissan N. Perez, A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photograph (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2010), p.113

Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2011), pl. 56

Celina Lunsford and Jamie M. Allen, Imogen Cunningham (Madrid:Fundación Mapfre, 2012), p. 230, pl. 182

Quentin Bajac and Sarah Hermanson Meister, The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), p. 107

Noam Gal, A Modern Love: Photographs from The Israel Museum (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2019), p. 69

Paul Martineau with contributions by Susan Ehrens, Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2020), pl. 42