Imogen Cunningham

The Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York, 1977

Imogen Cunningham, Frontiers: Photographs 1906-1976 (Berkeley: The Imogen Cunningham Trust, 1978), table 4, image C; and pl. 34

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: Ideas without End (San Francisco, 1993), pl. 38

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: the Modernist Years (Tokyo, 1993), unpaginated

Richard Lorenz, Imogen Cunningham: Flora (New York, 1996), pl. 11

Richard Lorenz and Manfred Heiting, Imogen Cunningham: 1883-1976 (Cologne, 2001), p. 200

This photograph comes originally from the collection of John Glasse (1922-2014), a Professor of Religion at Vassar College from 1956 to 1990. An accomplished photographer himself, Glasse began collecting photographs in earnest in the 1970s, frequenting early New York galleries like LIGHT Gallery and Witkin Gallery. He focused on 20th century photographers such as Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz ( Lot 53), Ansel Adams ( Lot 22), Frederick Sommer (Lots 148 and 149) and Paul Strand (Lots 111, 147, and 150). Professor Glasse curated an exhibition of Paul Strand photographs at the Vassar College Art Gallery in 1977 and organized a symposium in honor of Frederick Sommer’s 75th birthday in 1985.