Photographic Collections

Below is a select list of photographic collections of Imogen Cunningham's work. Some of these collections may not be on permanent display; others may have the collections for occasional exhibition use or for research purposes only. Be sure to check with each institution for access to the collection.

ARIZONA
• Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson

CALIFORNIA
• Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica
• Oakland Museum of California
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• University Art Museum, Berkeley
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Stanford University Museum of Art
• Gunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

FLORIDA
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

GEORGIA
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta

ILLINOIS
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

LOUISIANA
• New Orleans Museum of Art

MASSACHUSETTS
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston

MICHIGAN
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

MINNESOTA
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts

MISSOURI
• Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City

NEW YORK
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester

OHIO
• Cincinnati Art Museum

PENNSYLVANIA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art

TEXAS
• Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
• Dallas Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

WASHINGTON
• Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
• Seattle Art Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C.
• National Museum of American History, Division of Photographic History, Smithsonian Institution

FOREIGN COLLECTIONS
• Antwerp Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium
• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
• Nihon University International Collections, Japan

Collections of Manuscripts and Other Archival Material

Below is a select list of major collections for research and review. Be sure to check with the institution for access privileges.

Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC
Imogen Cunningham Papers, 1903-1976. Includes correspondence, biographical material; her manuscripts, transcripts of interviews; lecture notes on portrait photography; essays about her; financial records; teaching materials; catalogues and announcements; photos of Cunningham, her family and friends; clippings; miscellany. Total: c. 6000 items. Gift of Imogen Cunningham.

Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, California
The Roi Partridge Collection contains three boxes of archival materials including scrapbooks, correspondence and other materials containing references to Cunningham's career and family life. The original typed transcript of the Regional Oral History Project's 1959 interview with Cunningham is preserved here.

Center for Creative Photography
Tuscon, Arizona
A significant amount of material relating to Cunningham and group f.64 is at the Center. Letters from Cunningham are in the Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Edward Weston, Helen Gee, Lee Witkin, and George Craven Archives. Additional research materials are in the Limelight Gallery and Witkin Gallery Collections and in biographical vertical files. Group f.64 is documented in the Edward Weston, Sonya Noskoviac, Willard Van Dyke, Ansel Adams, and George Craven Archives. The original transcripts of interviews with friends and family of Cunningham assembled for Dater's book, Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait (1979) are preserved here.

Manuscripts Collection, Suzallo Library
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
The University of Washington makes three reels of microfilmed Cunningham documents available to scholars.