MoMA announces transformative gift of photographs by women artists from the Helen Kornblum Collection
Frances Benjamin Johnston. Penmanship Class. 1899. Platinum print, 7 3/8 × 9 3/8″ (18.7 × 23.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift of 100 photographs from the Helen Kornblum Collection, adding significant examples of women artists pioneering achievements across the field. The collectionincluding avantgarde experimentation, photojournalism, social documentary, commercial studio photography, and advertising, among other practicesis filled with both rare and important works and lesser-known or under-represented examples spanning the history of the medium. The gift features iconic images from the early modernist period to today by such luminaries as Gertrud Arndt, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Lucia Moholi, and contemporaries including Flor Garduño, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Susan Meiselas, Catherine Opie, Tatiana Parcero, Lorna Simpson, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, and Carrie Mae Weems.