Art. California Regional Chapter, Presented at Mills College, Oakland, March 30, 1996 1997 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. The Academy of Art, San Francisco, June 1, 1997 2003 Lucie Awards for achievement in fine art Solo exhibitions 1936: Jake Zeitlin Gallery, Los Angeles 1936: Pacific Institute of Music and Art, Los Angeles, Eye Behind the Camera 1938: P.M. Gallery, New York 1956: Institute for Cultural Relations, Mexico City 1986: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Eternal Body 2014: Peter Fetterman Gallery The Eternal Nude Collections Bernhard's work is held in the following permanent collections: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Illinois Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, California Portland Museum of Art, Oregon San Jose Museum of Art, California Minneapolis Institute of Art International Photography Hall of Fame, St.Louis, Missouri See also List of German women artists References General references Ruth Bernhard Minnesota Public Radio (audio) Samples of Bernhard's works Various photographs at artnet Lavender, Lisa Ann. "Ruth Bernhard." In The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, ed. Robin Lenman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers. New York: Abbeville, 1994. Bernhard, Ruth, and Margaretta K. Mitchell. Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2000. Corinne, Tee A. "Ruth Bernhard." In An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. 2002. "Ruth Bernhard" at Women in Photography: an unsigned article, with photographs by Bernhard Ruth Bernhard, Joe Folberg of meeting Bernhard Primary documents regarding her life and career are housed at Princeton University's Special Collections. An inventory of their holding can be found in this finding aid. 1905 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American photographers Artists from Berlin Artists from California Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area Bisexual artists Bisexual women German centenarians German emigrants to the United States Photographers from Berlin German women artists German women photographers People from the Province of Brandenburg Photographers from California Women centenarians 20th-century American women photographers 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century American women