Artist: Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Photography
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Biography:
Aaron Siskind’s original intention was to become a writer. However, after receiving a camera for a wedding present, he became fascinated with the medium’s potential. He moved to New York in 1930 and joined the Film and Photo League, producing social documentary images. He then bought a large-format camera and began creating abstract photographs. Siskind taught elementary and junior high school from 1926 to 1948. He moved to Chicago and began teaching photography at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and remained there for twenty years.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (58)
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Aaron Siskind - Peru 129 1983 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Aaron Siskind - New York 3 1951 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Aaron Siskind - Peru 297 1983 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Aaron Siskind - New York 88 n.d. gelatin silver print Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Franz Kline - Siskind 1958 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Aaron Siskind - Martha's Vineyard II 1947 gelatin silver print Spencer Museum of Art American
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Aaron Siskind - Peace Meals n.d. gelatin silver print Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Aaron Siskind - Lima 89 (Homage to Franz Kline) 1975 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Thomas Hart Benton - Aaron 1941 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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Francis Alexander - Aaron Baldwin c. 1835 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Anonymous Gathering Manna: Moses Directing Aaron to keep an Omer of it (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Anonymous Moses informing Aaron of God's Message to Pharoah (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. Aaron Lopez and Her Son Joshua 1772-73 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828 Aaron Davis about 1816 Oil on panel 73.02 x 58.74 cm
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Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, 1537 Master of the
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Aaron Bohrod New Orleans Street Lithograph 20th century
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Aaron Bohrod Church in Luxembourg Lithograph 20th century
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Thomas Hart Benton Aaron Lithograph 1941
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Ezra Ames Colonel David Cady (formerly called Colonel Aaron Ogden) oil on canvas 1810
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Anonymous Jacob and Rebekah (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Barthel Beham Moses And Aaron Engraving 1526
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Paine of Islington Mr. Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus, Act IV , Scene II. 19th century
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Anonymous Moses Receiving Tablets of Stone on Mt. Sinai (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Anonymous Joshua Defeating Amalek: Battle in Rephedim (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Anonymous Jacob Receiving the Blessing Intended for Esau (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Cornelis Cort Moses and Aaron before the Pharaoh Engraving 1567
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Moses & Aaron
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Aaron Douglas - Into Bondage 1936 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Aaron Draper Shattluck - Landscape 1864 oil on canvas Hudson River Museum American
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Aaron Fink, American, Born in 1955 Portrait 1988 Oil on canvas 182.9 x 167.6 cm
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Maxime Lalanne, French, 1827-1886 La tour undated graphite pencil Sheet: 16.9 x 16.1 cm (6
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August von Pettenkofen, Austrian, 1822-1889 Gypsy hut mid 19th century Watercolor Sheet: 26 x 33.5
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Aaron Draper Shattuck - Trail Scene 1859 oil on academy board Florence Griswold Museum American
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Aaron Draper Shattuck - Graznig in Granby n.d. Oil on board Florence Griswold Museum American
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Aaron Fink - Untitled (Man with Cigar) 1982 lithograph Portland Museum of Art American
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Aaron Copeland USA, 1956 Photograph,
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Aaron Bohrod, American, 1907 –1992 Oak Street Platform about 1940 Oil on Masonite 42.54 x
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Alexandre Calame, Swiss, 1810-1864 Mountain Waterfall mid 19th century Watercolor Sheet: 13.8 x 20.8 cm
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Gaston Roullet, French, 1847-1925 Harbor at sunset 1874 Watercolor Sheet: 15 x 21.3 cm (5
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Louis Haghe Tomb of Aaron, Summit of Mount Hor - The Holy Land Lithograph 19th century
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Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, French (born in Switzerland), 1859-1923 Les forgerons undated Charcoal Sheet: 35.9 x 24.4
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Maxime Lalanne, French, 1827-1886 Paysage au bateau undated Charcoal drawing on buff paper Sheet: 13.5
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Maxime Lalanne, French, 1827-1886 Le pont 1864 Pencil and white chalk on brown paper Sheet:
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Charles François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878 A plain with isolated grove and tree undated Black and
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David Roberts Tomb of Aaron, Summit of Mount Hor, plate 97 in the book The Holy Land, with historical notes by George Croly (London: Day & Son, 1855), vol. 3 (of 6), Idumea and Petra, [bound with The Holy Land, with historical notes by William Brock
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Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, French, 1803-1860 The fallen hero 1834 Crayon on buff paper, drawing Sheet:
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Maxime Lalanne, French, 1827-1886 Paysage au fusaid ? (House and twin trees) 1855 charcoal and
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Aaron Draper Shattuck - Sunday Morning in New England 1873 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Charles Émile Jacque, French, 1813-1894 Landscape, with hut and seated figure late 19th century Graphite
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Maxime Lalanne, French, 1827-1886 Ferme au grande arbre (page d"album) undated Graphite pencil, gray and
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 Disparate de Tontos (Fool"s Folly); plate from the
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 After Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish,
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Aaron Draper Shattuck - Rocks of Maine Coast, Resort Hotel 1858 graphite on paper Florence Griswold Museum American
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Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528 Man of Sorrows, Mocked by a Soldier (Large Passion) about 1511
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Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858 The Hoda Seacoast in Awa province from the series (Boso Meisho) Famous
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Constant Troyon, French, 1810-1865 Windswept Meadow with Shepherd and Flock mid-19th century Black chalk on
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Elizabeth Steell, British Sampler Britain, 1721 Linen plain weave embroidered with silk and metallic thread
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White Flag, 1955 Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas; H.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University: AARON SISKIND: HARLEM PHOTOGRAPHY
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Concrete Abstraction: Aaron Siskind Photographs
Aaron Siskind dedicated a series of his mature photographs to Franz Kline, one of the New York painters with whom he was friends. For his part, Siskind's legacy lay in using straight photography to create co...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Yasuhiro Ishimoto Photographs: Traces of Memory
He moved back to Japan in the 1960s to teach photography and has resided there since, earning acclaim as a major figure of his generation. This selection of recent work concentrates on his evocative, abstract studies of cloud...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Jackson Pollock, Robert Frank, and the New American Vision: Drawings and Photographs from the Fo
In photography, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White followed diverse paths in the pursuit of abstraction. ...
The Art Institute of Chicago: Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective
The exhibition contains 125 of Josephsons works. Altering perspective, scale, and point of view, Josephson was once hailed as a leader of conceptual photography in the late 1960s and 1970s. His photographs ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
California Museum of Photography: Displaced Perspectives: Photographs and Installation by Baer
Baer's large color photographs are bafflingly bizarre spaces formed as the result of ingenious set construction combined with view camera technology. Baer's work begins with the building of large and...
Museum of Photographic Arts: LAST CHANCE: Facts Showered with Light
Like the written word, the photograph fixes perfectly but translates poorly, producing images altogether more luminous, more immense, more mesmerizing and quixotic than what we might actually have seen or...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photographs of Ray K. Metzker
Metzker turned suddenly to landscape photography in 1985 during an autumn trip to Tuscany, where he produced a series of works titled Feste di Foglie (Celebration o...
Philadelphia Art Alliance: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: Bollywood Satirized
Matthew received her MFA in photography from the University of Delaware in 1997 and is currently assistant professor of art at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Her most recent solo exhibition...
California Museum of Photography: Joy Before the Object: Expressions of Modernism from UCR/CMP Collections
There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of rep...
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 ...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and monographs, camera...

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Aaron Siskind Foundation
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Aaron Siskind Portfolio
Aaron Siskind - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Aaron Siskind (Getty Museum)
Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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