Consuelo Kanaga
She is a Tree of Life to Them
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May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Consuelo Kanaga
1894 - 1978
She is a Tree of Life to Them
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, annotations in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1950
image: 13⅜ by 9⅝ in. (33.8 by 24.4 cm.)
frame: 25 by 21 in. (63.5 by 53.3 cm.)
By descent to Wallace Putnam, the photographer's husband
Private collection, 1987, gift of the above
Christie’s London, 1 November 2005, Sale 7141, Lot 38
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Barbara Campbell, "Consuelo Kanaga, Photographer, Dies," The New York Times, 2 March, 1978, p. 29
Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer (New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1992), p. 175, pl. 90
Connie & Wally: An Exhibition and Tribute to Two Important Artists, Consuelo Kanaga and Wallace Putham (New York: The Yorktown Museum, 2002), p. 18
Collected (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2016), p. 40