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IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM (1883–1976)
Shen Yao, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii, 1938
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled, dated and annotated 'contact' in pencil on photographer's Oakland credit label, credited, titled on affixed 'San Francisco Society of Women Artists Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art' label and credited, titled on Museum of Modern Art label (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (24.1 x 19.6 cm.)
mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by Albert M. Bender to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940.
Literature
Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham Portraiture, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl.111.
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Art, Civic Center, San Francisco Society of Women Artists Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, November 5–December 4, 1938.
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