Edward De Witt Taylor
In Golden Gate Park
Drypoint etching
1931
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Throckmorton Fine Art: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston's Photographic Collaborations
Modotti studied photography with Weston, whose aesthetic, was based on the desire to give photography the status of high art through his formalist, “Form follows function,” techniques. Weston rejected documentary realism, while the content of Mod...
Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery: Intermedia Series
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Edward Weston and Modernism
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Art Institute of Chicago: Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel
His work was both a release and a receptacle as he experienced a
failing marriage, battled Parkinson's disease, and saw his sons
leave for military service. No l...
Amon Carter Museum: Edward Weston: Life Work
Weston moved to California in 1906 from Illinois and began to earn his living in photography by doing house-to-house portraiture. In 1911 he opened a studio in Glendale taking photographs in the pictorial style, but by 1922 he had reached a turni...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Men of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Edward Weston, Fritz Henle, and Gerardo Suter
Collectively displaying photographs by these artists demonstrates many parallels in their lives and work. During his stay in Mexico, e.g., Edward Weston began a new direction while maturing as an artist, and through the suggestion of Tina Modotti...
Center for Creative Photography: Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration
As an American photography icon, Edward Weston is widely renowned as one of the twentieth century's most important photographers. Margrethe Mather, however, remains a little known and enigmatic figure, despite her amazing body of work and well-doc...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Brandt and Weston: Two Geniuses of Photography
Bill Brandt: A Retrospective
Bill Brandt: A Retrospective explores the wide ranging work of this
British master photographer. Brandts work is familiar to viewers because
he is the inventor of his style - the trademark grainy gray British ligh...
Moderna Museet: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance shows Modotti's
photography between 1923 and 1930 when she was working in
Mexico. During the 1920s, together with her A...
Museum of Modern Art: Making Choices (third series)
The exhibitions are: Anatomically Incorrect; How
Simple Can You Get; Home Movies; Ideal Motif:
Stieglitz, Weston, Adams, and Callahan; Modern
Living 2; New York Salon; The Observer: Cartier-
Bresson after the War; The Rhetoric of Persuasion;
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Amon Carter Museum: The Artist and the American West: A Century of Western Art
This special exhibition celebrates forty years of collecting outstanding examples of the art of the American
West. Beginning with an early view (1826) of Hudson’s Bay by Peter Rindisbacher and moving forward to a photograph of
...
High Museum: Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection
The High Museum of Art is the
only venue for these exhibitions. Chorus of Light:
Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection features
approximately 320 masterpieces by renowned photographers,
including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, D...
Museum of Photographic Arts: The Model Wife
In each case, the
photographer/spouse collaboration resulted in the creation of some of the artists most
lasting and significant work. The Model Wife includes many image...
Oakland Museum of California: Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000
Much of what we think of as Great American Photography is in fact Californian, said Drew Heath Johnson, Curator of Photography at OMCA. Names such as Weston, Watkins, Ansel Adams or Dorothea Lange are among the first that occur to us when we consi...
Museum of American Folk Art: THE ART OF WILLIAM EDMONDSON
Organized by the Cheekwood
Museum of Art in Nashville, the exhibition presents 40 limestone sculptures and 20
photographs of the artist by Edward Weston and Louise Dahl-Wolfe that reassess
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Body Work: Photographs of Nudes
Edward
Steichen, as a turn-of-the-century pictorialist, idealized
the nude, making evocative, soft-focus images.
Edward Weston, working after World War I, created
Modernist images of women, often emphasizing abstrac...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Picasso Ceramic Editions: From the Edward Weston Collection
In the nineteenth century, Vallauris had been
a center of ceramics production, however it had been in decline since World
War I. Picassos interest led to its revitalization and he produced over 600
editions in Vallauris until 1971. Sixty cer...
Orlando Museum of Art: IN PRAISE OF NATURE: ANSEL ADAMS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
During the 19th Century, photographers celebrated the unrealized potential and
glory of the western landscape. Works by 19th-Century photographers
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Museum of American Folk Art: THE ART OF WILLIAM EDMONDSON
Organized by the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, the exhibition presents 40 limestone sculptures and 20 photographs of the artist by Edward Weston and Louise Dahl-Wolfe that reassess Edmondson's oeuvre within the cultural milieu of his time....
J. Paul Getty Center: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
From Hippolyte Bayard to Diane Arbus, the influential pioneers presented here span more than a century of photography, from the earliest years of the new art form in the late 1830s to the late 1960s. Each photographer featured in the exhibition ad...
Portland Museum of Art: In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West
In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West was
organized by the Dayton Art Institute. The presentation of this exhibition at the
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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...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Patrick Pound: The Memory Room
Patrick Pound has exhibited widely throughout Australia and New Zealand and his work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Dunedin Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand. Poun...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection
In
some images, the anonymity of the figure is used to suggest Everyman, while others teach us that it
is not just the face that identifies individuality. Techniques used by the photographers include back
views, silhouetting, and cropping. Oth...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
Working With Artists: Call for Artists: 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Juried Photography Exhibition
The 2002 juried exhibit resulted in 80 pieces selected out of over 300 entries. The exhibition was very successful for the photographers in the seven state Rocky Mountain region, and the show was well received by the many photographers who entered...
Joslyn Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital,
The Hallmark Photographic Collection
Local support for this exhibition has been made possible in part by the ConAgra Foundation. By about 1890, the
art and impact of photography in American culture had been transformed by several important developments: the...
Dundee Contemporary Arts: Ill Communication: Advances in Travel and Communication
One of the highlights of the show is Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's unlikely use of steam-powered engineering to provide internet access, developed in co-operation with the Scottish Model Engineering Trust. Another work utilises a dysfunctional com...
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance,
when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity.
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