Imogen Cunningham
Calla

Calla

© Imogen Cunningham Trust

Calla
Calla
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Calla
Datelate 1920s
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (27 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (35.3 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund as a matching gift to the donations of Gay Block
Object number2000.345
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionBest known for photographs of flowers in her San Francisco garden taken during the 1920s and 1930s, Imogen Cunningham rejected soft-focus, sentimental imagery in favor of an approach that conveyed, with crystalline clarity, a sensuous delight in nature.
Provenance[Howard Greenberg]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Exhibition History"A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 14–December 30, 2001.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, upper edge: To Roma from Louise Olivereau, Carmel / 1928 / To Don Goewey from Roma 1978

Inscribed in pencil, lower left: PF32085 JV
Signed in pencil, recto, lower right: Imogen Cunningham

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