id: 162168
accession number: 2001.90
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.90
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:46.244000
Black and White Lilies III, c. 1928. Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883–1976). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.7 x 19 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.); paper: 30.1 x 24.6 cm (11 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2001.90 © The Imogen Cunningham Trust
title: Black and White Lilies III
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creation date: c. 1928
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1933
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright: © The Imogen Cunningham Trust
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883–1976) - artist
Imogen Cunningham American, 1883-1976
Born in Portland, Oregon, Imogen Cunningham became one of America's most admired photographers during a career that spanned seven decades. She took her first photographs in Seattle in 1901 and later worked for photographer Edward S. Curtis (1907-9). While assisting in Curtis's studio, Cunningham learned the platinum printing process, a technique she used for the soft-focus pictorial style she then favored.
In 1910, upon her return to Seattle after a year studying photographic chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Cunningham opened a portrait studio. She moved to San Francisco with her husband, Roi Partridge, in 1917 and in the 1920s began a series of sharply focused, closeup studies of plant forms. Emphasizing light, form, and abstract pattern, these images were included in Film und Foto, the influential exhibition of avant-garde photography and film held in Stuttgart in 1929. Three years later, Cunningham joined Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and others in forming Group f/64.
Throughout her long career Cunningham exhibited her work widely and was featured in several documentaries. Among retrospectives of her photography were Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973, at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington (1974), and A Centennial Selection at the California Academy of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco (1983). Her subject matter ranged from portraits and closeup studies of plants, flowers, and nudes to unconventional views of modern architecture. Portraiture, however, held special interest. When Cunningham died in 1976, she was working on a book featuring portraits of people over 90 years of age (published posthumously in 1977 as After Ninety). M.M.
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measurements: Image: 23.7 x 19 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 30.1 x 24.6 cm (11 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
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inscription: written in pencil on Recto: Imogen Cunningham [signed] / K1212J"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00
Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 70, p. 119, repr. p. 70.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 70, no. 70
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