Three loans to: The New Woman Behind the Camera

We are appreciative that three works from the collection are included in the groundbreaking exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until October 3, and traveling thereafter to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 31, 2021–January 30, 2022). Our thanks to curators Andrea Nelson and Mia Fineman for a superb exhibition and catalogue.

Watch the virtual opening here.

Adele Gloria (Italian, 1910-1984)
Senza titolo (Untitled), c. 1933
Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints on board
7 3/16 x 8 3/8” (18.2 x 21.3 cm)

Valentina Kulagina (Russian, 1902–1987)
Design for book cover: Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov, Oktiabr’ (October), 1930
Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints, gouache, and ink on paper
8 x 12 1/4" (21 x 31 cm)

Elizaveta Ignatovich (Russian, 1903–1983)
Poster: Bor’ba za politekhnicheskuiu shkolu est’ bor’ba za piatiletku, za kadry, za klassovoe kommunisticheskoe vospitanie (The struggle for the polytechnical school is the struggle, for the Five-Year Plan, for the Communist education about class consciousness), 1931
Lithograph, 20 1/4 x 28 3/8" (51.4 x 71.8 cm)

August 3, 2021