Aloe Bud
Artist
Imogen Cunningham
(American, 1883 - 1976)
Date1925
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (30.8 x 22.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1286
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Print margin below image, LR
pencil
Label
[typescript title and the annotation, 'Bromide enlargement']
Back of Mount
Mills College Label
Notations
"Bromide enlargement"
Verso, LL
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Imogen Cunningham’s long and distinguished career spanned three-quarters of a century, from 1910 until her death in 1976. Her first modernist works—a series of crisply focused close-ups of botanical forms—was made in the mid-1920s. These photographs are powerfully original images, boldly composed and resolutely unsentimental. The earliest of these works (including this one) were printed on warm-tone papers; by the early 1930s, Cunningham had shifted to cooler-tone, glossy-surface printing papers. Cunningham’s attention to formal and tonal tensions, as seen here, masterfully unites description and abstraction.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2000;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© The Imogen Cunningham Trust
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