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Cunningham, Imogen
American (1883-1976)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Lydia Gibson

ca. 1915
platinum print
24.2 x 18.8 cm.
Gift of Photographer
77:0760:0066

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6613:1

INSCRIPTION: (on separate typesheet accompanying print) "This photograph of a woman in front of her painting is not sent for the print itself. It was done before 1920 in San Francisco and I have no negative. BUT I do have a 4x5 Lumiere positive in color of this woman, who is Lydia Gibson and later was married to a man who was an artist on THE NEW MASSES[.] If you want the transparency, I can find out the name. I believe she now lives in Croton - on - Hudson." (in pencil on same typesheet, refering to Lumiere positive) "In*

copyright, The Imogen Cunningham Trust. All Rights Reserved.

NOTES: Catalogued 8-93 D.S. *among the Autochromes and other Lumieric plates. A gift from I. Cunningham 1960"

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Gibson, Lydia
artifact, painting

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