Imogen Cunningham
Magnolia Bud

Magnolia Bud

© Imogen Cunningham Trust

Magnolia Bud
Magnolia Bud
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Magnolia Bud
Date1920s
Place depictedUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (24.1 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (24.1 × 18.4 cm)
Mount: 14 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (36.8 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.268
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionImogen
Cunningham is best known for the photographs she created of flowers in her San
Francisco garden during the 1920s and 1930s. An innovator in West Coast photography,
Cunningham was one of seven original members of Group f/64, who rejected
soft-focus, sentimental imagery in favor of photographs like Magnolia Bud that convey a sensuous
delight in nature with crystalline clarity.

ProvenanceWitkin Gallery, 1976; MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27– May 1, 1988.

"Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures,"
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 3– February 25, 2007; Austin Museum of Art May 19– August 12, 2007; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, June 5– August 24, 2008.

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