Triangles
Mount: 12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
20th-Century
Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art
Center, Sioux City, IA, 10 January-22 February 1981, no cat.
Selections
from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College,
Highland, KS, 19 October-11 November 1993, no cat.
Twentieth-Century
Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art &
Design, Columbus, OH, 28 March-27 April 1996, no cat.
Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016- January 8, 2017, no cat.
Imogen Cunningham’s long and influential career spanned three-quarters of a century. She was one of the earliest of the purist photographers: artists who favored the use of sharp lenses, smooth surface photographic papers and subjects chosen from everyday life. In 1932, with Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and a few other like-minded artists, she was a founding member of Group f/64, named for the smallest, sharpest setting of the view camera lens.
This nude study, composed to emphasize the geometric contours of the female form, epitomizes her modernist vision.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
