Imogen Cunningham

mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's '1331 Green Street, San Francisco' letterpress studio label, with facsimile signature and typed title, and her ideogram estate stamp on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1960

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1995

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), p. 210 (this print)

This print is in generally excellent condition. Upon very close examination in high raking light, a 1-and-1/2-inch hairline scratch is visible in the upper portion of the image. On the reverse of the print is the photographer's ideogram estate stamp, with the stamped number '88.' There are abrasions to the top paper-ply of the studio stamp, which affects a portion of the letterpress address and typed information. Also on the reverse of the mount along its upper edge are 3 one-inch pieces of linen tape.
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