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: (60)
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William Oberhardt Portrait of George T. Eggleston charcoal 1949
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
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Gregor Duncan Portrait Sketch of George T. Eggleston red chalk 1935
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Karl Godwin Portrait of George T. Eggleston charcoal 1950
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
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George T. Eggleston The Stout Lady for College Humor pen and black ink 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 pen and black ink 20th century
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George T. Eggleston "I won't mind this atoll" Cover for Judge Magazine ink and watercolor 1929
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William Eggleston - Memphis 1975 dye transfer print Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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William Oberhardt Sketch of Mr. Trevor charcoal 1952
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William Steig Merry Christmas watercolor 1933
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Memphis
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William Eggleston - Huntsville, Alabama 1978 dye transfer print Milwaukee Art Museum American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Southhaven, Mississippi
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Arthur William Brown Miss Manhattan for College Humor graphite 1930
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William Eggleston - Near the River at Greenville, Mississippi 1984 chromogenic process Cleveland Museum of Art American
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
J. Paul Getty Museum -
New Orleans
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Memphis
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Gregor Duncan The Mad Tea Party, cartoon design for Life Magazine ink and watercolor 1935
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
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Gregor Duncan The Walrus and the Carpenter , cartoon design for Life Magazine ink and watercolor 1935
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Gregor Duncan Alice in Newdealand , cartoon design for for Life Magazine ink and watercolor 1936
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Tennessee
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mississippi
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Morton, Mississippi
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Joseph Pennell Eggleston Abbey, From the River Lithograph 1899
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Greenwood, Mississippi
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Memphis
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John Held Jr. Canoeing for Life Magazine pen and ink 1927
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John Groth Untitled graphite, watercolor and wash 1929
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Jo Spier Christmas Greeting ink and watercolor 1951
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Robert James Day " Ah! the first robin" for Life Magazine black ink and wash 1935
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Ralph Barton I know it's here somewhere... for College Humor drawing, ink and wash 1930
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior William, Youngest Son of Lord William Russell Mezzotint 18th - 19th century
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Mote Spoon, Maker’s mark possibly that of William Cripps or William Chawner  (Artist), circa 1760-1780, Silver
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Mote Spoon, Maker’s mark possibly that of William Cripps or William Chawner  (Artist), circa 1760-1780, Silver
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William Faithorne The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662) Book with 9 etchings with engraving 1662
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Russell Patterson Showgirl, design for for Life Magazine graphite, ink, and watercolor 1933
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William Henry Watt William Lourdsworth 19th century
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William Page - Mrs. William Page 1860-61 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Stevan Dohanos Untitled (Island boy) tempera on brown paper 1951
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Arthur William Devis - The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire c. 1786 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Jo Spier Christmas Greeting ink and watercolor on folded sheet 1953
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William Nicholson London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) book with color plates 1898
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Gluyas Williams The Museum of Fine Art - for Life Magazine black ink 1926
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Arthur H. Young "I've Got to Cut My Overhead...", cartoon design for Life Magazine black ink circa 1920
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Kin Hubbard Untitled, for the magazine College Humor black ink 1930
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John Norton Keep These Off the U.S.- World War I Poster lithograph poster 1918
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William Page - Colonel William Leete Stone 1839 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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William Nicholson An Almanac of Twelve Sports (London: William Heinemann, 1898) book with color plates 1898
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John Held Jr. Untitled (boy and girl on a couch) for the magazine College Humor black ink circa 1930
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Robert Chesley Osborn Yale, cartoondesign for the magazine College Humor black ink circa 1930
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Gluyas Williams The Woman Who Snapped Her Purse During the Andante - for Life Magazine black ink 1925
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William Bagdatopoulos - Dr. William Henry Holmes 1929 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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William Nicholson Hammersmith, fifth plate in the book London Types (London: William Heinemann, 1898) color plate 1898

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (17)
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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...
Galerie Poller  : Astrid Korntheuer - Gloer | Loh
In her series ‘Loh’ the distance that speaks from Astrid Korntheuer’s very close up pictures is all the more apparent through the medium of black and white photography. Through the latter’s degree of abstraction, this distance becomes a reference ...
Laurence Miller Gallery: Portfolios: Seeing in Series
The four portfolios, each of which will be exhibited in its entirety, are: Katsura, by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, published in 1989 from negatives made during two trips to this villa in 1953-54 and 1981-82. Selecting and combining images from these...
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 ...
Gibbes Museum of Art: William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005
Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has photographed the American South, focusing his attention on his hometown, Hale County, Alabama. Christenberry has returned to Hale County every year to record its slowly changing landscape and struct...
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
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Amazon.com: Books: William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998

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