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The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Imogen Cunningham

Triangles

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April 14, 05:19 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

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The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Imogen Cunningham

1883 - 1976 


Triangles

warm-toned gelatin silver print, signed in pencil in the margin, tipped to card, the photographer’s Photograph by Imogen Cunningham Mills College studio label, with typed title Triangles (nude) and process contact bromide, on the reverse, framed

image: 3 ¾ by 2 ¾ in. (9.5 by 7 cm.)

Executed in 1928.

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

Acquired from the above in 1987, with Susan Ehrens as agent, by the present owner

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, Cologne 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 Art 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