Imogen Cunningham

warm-toned, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's '1331 Green Street, San Francisco' letterpress studio label with typed title and date on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1929

Weston Gallery, Carmel, 1994

Another image from the same sitting:

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: Ideas Without End, a Life in Photographs (San Francisco, 1993), p. 31, fig. 34

This early, warm-toned print, on matte-surface paper and mounted to cream-colored board, is in generally excellent condition. The signature appears to be later.The mount is warmer-toned in a 1/4-inch band around the edges of the print.When examined with a black light, this print does not appear to fluoresce.
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The elegant fingers pictured above belong to the acclaimed Gerald Warburg, son of New York City financier and philanthropist Felix M. Warburg.  A Harvard graduate, Gerald Warburg studied music in New York, Paris, and Vienna, and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in 1927.  In 1933, he married Conde Nast’s daughter Natica.  His father’s mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue now houses the Jewish Museum.