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Imogen Cunningham
(1883-1976)
CALLA WITH LEAF
mounted, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, her '4540 Harbor View, Oakland, California' studio label, with typed title ('Calla'), date, and annotation 'Contact Print,' on the reverse, matted, 1932
9 1/4 by 7 3/8 in. 23.5 by 18.7 cm.
Provenance
Gift of Albert M. Bender, 1940
Exhibited
Photography collection galleries reinstallation, December 1979
Literature
Lorenz, Flora, pl. 61
Albert M. Bender (1866-1941), the owner of a small San Francisco insurance agency, was a dedicated supporter of the arts. He was the patron of a number of artists and writers, among them Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Consuelo Kanaga. Bender first saw Ansel Adams's photographs in 1927 and immediately proposed to sponsor a portfolio of his work, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. From that year on, Bender became one of Adams's most influential collectors. In 1940, Ansel Adams became the vice-chairman of The Museum of Modern Art's first Committee on Photography, and it may have been his friendship with Adams that led Bender to donate to the Museum, in 1940, a number of important photographs by leading California photographers.