Artist: William Eggleston (1939 - )
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
William Eggleston was raised on a cotton plantation in Mississippi. His photography is based on his life growing up in the South. His early work was created in a large black and white format and depicted everyday country subjects. He later began experimenting with color and held an influential solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976 entitled William Eggleston’s Guide. Eggleston currently lives in Memphis.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
William Oberhardt, Portrait of George T. Eggleston, 1949
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Karl Godwin, Portrait of George T. Eggleston, 1950
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George T. Eggleston, The Stout Lady for College Humor, 1935
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Gregor Duncan, Portrait Sketch of George T. Eggleston, 1935
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George T. Eggleston, "I won"t mind this atoll" Cover for Judge Magazine, 1929
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George T. Eggleston, Collegiate Types for College Humor, 20th century
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George T. Eggleston, "I won"t mind this atoll" Cover for Judge Magazine, 1929
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Joseph Pennell, Eggleston Abbey, From the River, 1899
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William Eggleston - Memphis 1975 dye transfer print Corcoran Gallery of Art American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Memphis
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Southhaven, Mississippi
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William Eggleston - Huntsville, Alabama 1978 dye transfer print Milwaukee Art Museum American
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William Eggleston - Near the River at Greenville, Mississippi 1984 chromogenic process Cleveland Museum of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
William Oberhardt, Sketch of Mr. Trevor, 1952
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William Steig, Merry Christmas, 1933
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Nashville
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William Eggleston - Halloween, Outskirts of Morton, Mississippi 1971 dye transfer print High Museum of Art American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
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New Orleans
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Arthur William Brown, Miss Manhattan for College Humor, 1930
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Memphis
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Tennessee
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Mississippi
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Morton, Mississippi
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Greenwood, Mississippi
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Memphis
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William Faithorne , The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
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Jo Spier, Christmas Greeting, 1951
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John Groth, Untitled , 1929
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Jo Spier, Christmas Greeting, 1953
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Stevan Dohanos, Untitled (Island boy), 1951
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Ralph Barton, I know it"s here somewhere... for College Humor, 1930
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John Norton, Keep These Off the U.S.- World War I Poster, 1918
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell, 18th - 19th century
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Robert James Day, " Ah! the first robin" for Life Magazine, 1935
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Kin Hubbard, Untitled, for the magazine College Humor, 1930

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: William Eggleston: Los Alamos
Initially meant to appear in book form as an encyclopedic twenty-volume portfolio of more than two thousand photographs, the Los Alamos series was put aside by the artist in order to work on other projects, and many of the negatives were never pri...
Laurence Miller Gallery: OASES: A Group Show of Photography
The landscape has always provided artists with an infinite range of choices for personal expression, whether it be the depiction of a holy place or the carnage of a battlefield. The ten artists selected for OASES each bring a different interpretat...
Photographer's Gallery: A New York Odyssey: Photographs by Dolores Marat
I love to be lost in New York, despite the fact that I don1t speak the language. For me, it has an incredible playfulness. As I have never come across French newspapers, I don't know what is going on. I have the sensation of being a str...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Aspects of Architecture
Aspects of Architecture will be displayed in four sections: Making the Record, Construction, Looking in Detail and Architecture as Art. The images on display will range from Stonehenge, the Millennium Dome and the construction of the Paris Oper...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things ...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000 begins at the point at which photographers began to make work that was in part a reaction to this established vocabulary, and at the same time a continuation and extension of its tradition.  The exhibition w...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Guy Bourdin in the Main Galleries as Prep is Made for New Galleries
The new Photography Gallery will provide visitors with a superb resource, serving as an introduction to the history of photography and to the national collection of the art of photography. The photography collection began in 1852 and now holds 300...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: 5th annual San Francisco Photographic Art Exposition Opened Yesterday
The phenomenal success of photo san francisco has attracted more than 70 galleries andprivate dealers from the United States and around the world presenting the finest photographic art ranging from rare 19th century prints to the most progressive ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
Dedicated to building bridges between cultural understanding and art, Julia "Judy" Norrell has assembled an outstanding collection that addresses the notion of a collective past and the role of memory and activism in finding common ground among di...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Open City: Street Photographs since 1950
On the opening day, the exhibition's co-curators--Kerry Brougher, the Hirshhorn's chief curator, and Russell Ferguson, deputy director/chief curator of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles--will discuss the show in a slide illustrated "Curators' Ta...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Further Artwork and Information:

Salon Brilliant Careers | William Eggleston
William Eggleston (Getty Museum)
DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions
William Eggleston artist portrait, brief biography and art
Masters of Photography: William Eggleston
William Eggleston Online
Profotos - William Eggleston
Amazon.com: Books: William Egglestons Guide
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Amazon.com: Books: William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998

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