Artist: John Frederick Lewis (1805 - 1876)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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John Frederick Lewis Cover for Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Lion and Lioness, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head of A Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head Of A Tigress, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion and Lioness, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Cover sheet and dedication from Lewis' Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra made during a residence in Granadae in the years 1833-4. Drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, R.J. Lane, A.R.A.W. Gauci & John F. Lewis. 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Tophana 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Court of the Lions 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Entance to the Mosque 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Court of the Myrtles 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Court of the Mosque 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Court of the Lions 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Port of Constantinople 1837
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John Frederick Lewis Cafe on the Bosphorus 1837
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John Frederick Lewis Cannon Foundry - Tophana 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis The Alhambra from the Alameda del Darra 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Contrabandistas, Andalusia. seventh plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Puerta del Sol, Madrid, sixth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Ronda:Andalusia, tenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis A Girl of Seville, thirteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Muleteers of Ronda, eleventh plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Torres de las Infantas 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Tower of Comares 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Head of lion Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Fountain from the Gate of the Leraglio 1837
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John Frederick Lewis Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Book with 26 color lithographs: 25 full-page plates and title with vignette 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Mendicant Friars receiving Alms, second plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Smuggling Feluchos; Gibraltar, sixteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Begging Friars, Granada, twentieth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Scene in the Arena, title page vignette in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Interior of a Posada, Segovia, twenty-fifth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Portugese Landscape 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Bullfighter, a scene in the arena, fourth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis The Mosque at Cordova (The Cathedral), nineteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Peasants of the Province of Granada, twenty-second plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Distant View of the Sierra Nevada, eighth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Interior of the Convent: the Prior*s Apartment, twenty-third plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Chapel of the Villa Viciosa, Cordova, twenty-first plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Gaucin Smugglers coming out of Gibraltar, eighteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Peasant Girl on a Mule, Andalusia, ninth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Gitanas, Gypsy Girls of Ronda, fifteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1833
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John Frederick Lewis Plaza de San Francisco: the great square of Seville, third plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Spanish Ladies: habited in the Maja dress of Andalusia...,fifth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Convent Door, Toledo (San Juan de los Reyes), twelfth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Peasants dancing the Bolero. A Scene in Granada., frontispiece and first plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis A Jewish Woman of Gibraltar, in a Fiesta Dress, seventeenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1835
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John Frederick Lewis Court of the Lion from the Hall of Abencerrage 19th century
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Artist: John Frederick Lewis, R.A. Title: Murillo Painting the Virgin in the Franciscan Convent at
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John Frederick Lewis Reception Room of the Turkish Pacha, New Orsova 1837
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John Frederick Lewis The Bosphorus from the great burial ground 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Sala Capitular (Chapter House), Cathedral of Toledo, twenty-fourth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [1836]) Color lithograph 1836
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John Frederick Lewis Chapel in The Great Mosque - Cordova Color lithograph 1885
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John Frederick Lewis Interior of the general life, from the casa di chapi 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Heads of Two Fawns pencil, transparent and opaque watercolor 19th century
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John Frederick Lewis Jose Maria, a celebrated Brigand, (Shot by his confederates in an attempt to betray themt o the Government, 1833), fourteenth plate in the book, Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character (London: F. G. Moon ä John F. Lewis, [18
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Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder) Scenery of the Rivers of England and Wales (London: Longmanä [and] for the proprietor F. C. Lewis, [1845]) book with etchings 1845
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Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder) Dartmoor near Holne, first plate in the book, Scenery of the Rivers of England and Wales (London: Longmanä [and] for the proprietor F. C. Lewis, [1845]) etching 1845
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Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder) At Enfield Etching 1845

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Institute of International Visual Arts: Andrew Lewis: Systems
Southern Hospitality is realised in fired ceramic, which represents a 'new media' for Lewis. A clutch of houses nestles at the bottom of a cliff. A white precipice overhangs this terrace of homeliness, whilst the waves lap ominously below. Here...
Translations Gallery: Anita Lewis: Elements
In 1979, Anita Lewis moved to Southern Germany. While living in Europe for almost 20 years, she learned about European Modernism in art and architecture which is reflected in her interior design work. Her goal as an artist is to create a symbiotic...
31 Grand: The Black Death by Jason Clay Lewis
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Jason Clay Lewis
Black Tide (detail), 2003
30 gallon stainless steel barrel, acrylic
27 1/8 x 14 3/4 x 14 3/4>The story is told through a series of sculpture, photography, video, and drawings. The icons of Jasons nar...
Dayton Art Institute: REFLECTIONS IN A LOOKING GLASS: A Centenary Lewis Carroll Centenial Exhibition
Carroll, the pseudonym of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, led an exuberant creative life that spanned many subjects and artistic forms. For the first time and with unprecedented depth, this exhibition assembles materials from across a ran...
St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity: Passages: Painting Exhibition by Lewis Zammit
Each painting endeavours to open a window on the infinite and the boundless, where space and form co-exist anomalously in a way which is intangible but which will lead you to venture within. Born on January 1971. Lewis Zammit commenced Vi...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Lewis Watts: Photographs
His imagery is made succinct by a careful attention to formal composition that combines found reality with esthetical elements. Since 1978, he has been a Lecturer in Photography and...
Photographer's Gallery: Dave Lewis: Photographs and Text Combine to Address Racism
Artist Dave Lewis, using selected quotes from the Sir William Macpherson Inquiry - the official document generated in the wake of Stephen Lawrence's murder, published in 1999 - has created a dialogue between the public manifestation of th...
Translations Gallery: Anita Lewis: Elements
Artworks Precision in the imprecise, detail in the obscure, clarity with sensuality, creating an unmistakable style. This is the language of modern art, architecture, and design. This is the language of my art. elements The eleme...
International Visions Gallery: Forty Four: An Inugral Exhibition
The International Visions Art Gallery's mission is to exhibit and promote multi-cultural original work by national and international artists. International Visions presents visual art exhibitions and special cultural traditions in dance, music, th...
Sin Sin Fine Art: Rick Lewis: Jalan
His influences range from among others, Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Paul Klee, Alberto Burri, Texan visionary painter Forrest Bess and Far Eastern calligraphy. He has exhibited in Texas, New York, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. His work belongs to numero...
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art: Trailing Lewis and Clark, Featuring the Art of Ken Holder
Artist Ken Holder, inspired by Stephen Ambrose’s book, “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West,” traveled the trail of Lewis and Clark. He was excited by the thought of creating his own “voyage o...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Mark Lewis: Large-Scale Film Installations
Mark Lewis's work functions as a critique of cinema, encouraging the viewer's awareness of the clichés, conventions and fragmentary nature of film, and how it has been constructed historically. In so doing, he also acknowledges its suggestive pow...
198 Gallery: Vision Light: Work by Artists with Visual Impairment
Led by Trinidadian artist Mario Lewis, the Vision Light series of workshops aimed at giving a group of diverse visually impaired individuals an opportunity to explore and communicate how they experience being both audiences and makers of art. The ...
Fotografisk Center: LEWIS CARROLL: a retrospective (1856-1879)
The exhibition is retrospective and covers the period from 1856 to1879. The original photographs were made via the wet collodian method, an early and very demanding technique of which Carroll was a master. His career as an artist / photographer be...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes
Systematic Landscapes complements the Confluence Project, a grand collaboration between Lin, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Lewis and Clark Commemorative Committee of Vancouver/Clark County, and the Friends of Le...
Presentation House Gallery: The Altered Landscape: Photographs from the Nevada Museum
The exhibition of 37 artists includes: Robert Adams, considered to be one of the most important photographers working today, who has been documenting the environmental destruction of the American West in the late 20th century. Richard Misrach and ...
York Quay Centre: Painting Over the Lines: Work by Five Contemporary Artists from Pakistan
Rashid Rana, one of the artists in York Quay Gallery's Painting Over the Lines exhibition, makes a special presentation on his process of creating art. Rana hires skilled billboard painters to realize some of his large works referencing pop-ar...
Translations Gallery: 2009 Exhibition Preview

Size: 45 x 60 inches (width x height)
Price: US $ 5250 >The 2009 Exhibition Preview features Lisabel Filiatraults skier and landscape paintings. Anita Lewis shows abstract paintings. SA Schimmel Gold displays pop art mosaic portra...
ArtHaus: Revelations: New Works in Various Media
Artists also included in this exhibition are: Andrea Arroyo, Astrid, Suzanne Benton, Brian Blood, Deborah Brown, Marc Lambrechts, Joanne Landis, Samuel F. Lewis and Carol Schiavo. IMAGE:
Adam Kurtzman
Flip Flop
bronze
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Sestri Restaurant & Gallery: A Show for the Girls
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Strand on Volta: Meat and You: Works by Graham Caldwell, Frank Day, Stephen E. Lewis and William Newman
Graham Caldwell’s work captures perfectly the mystery of being in a natural history museum for the first time. Using glass, he transforms organic forms – objects that are lightweight, gentle, and organic – into objects that are heavyweight, massiv...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: Transcending Type:
"Transcending Type" presents their designs, which range from the "humanized" highway interchange by the firm Reiser + Umemoto to the installation by Predock_Frane for a contemplative space, made up of 5,000 barely visible green and white suspended...
Taft Museum of Art: The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945
Included are works by painters Joshua Johnston, Henry O. Tanner, Duncanson and Horace Pippin; photographer James P. Ball; and sculptor Edmonia Lewis amon...
Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington: Art At The Millenium: Part II
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Columbus Museum of Art: The Art of Humane Propaganda
This exhibition brings together 44 vintage prints, on loan from the Ohio State University, together with earlier examples by American social documentary photographer Lewis Hine. Hines work, on loan from ...
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: Drawings: Armand Simon
He rarely leaves his house in Pâturages and remains an odd recluse within the movement. Thanks to purchases, but principally to his widow's legacy of a thousand of his works (in 1987), completed with another legacy by Irène Hamoir, the Museum n...
National Museum of Women in the Arts: M.L. Van Nice: The Library at Wadi ben Dagh
“M.L. Van Nice’s books inspire a different kind of reading than we usually practice,” says Krystyna Wasserman, Curator of Book Arts. “This installation forces the viewer to look at literary masterpieces in a new way; we find ourselves in a wonderl...
Durango Arts Center: Trio Series: Group Two Exhibit by Colorado Artists
Ric Peterson studied art at Southern Illinois University and received private instruction under arts masters in Rome, Guatemala, Japan and Australia. He has exhibited in both British Columbia and Australia, and has worked as a graphic designer and...
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Enduring Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Early photographic pioneers William Henry Jackson, Timothy OSullivan and Carleton Watkins chronicle and interest in the exploration of the American West during the 19th century. Also featured are images of urban and suburban ...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Oakville Galleries: Weathervane: Curated by Karen Love
The exhibition features works by Marlene Creates, Paterson Ewen, Rodney Graham, Tania Kitchell, Mark Lewis, Richard Rhodes, Seifollah Samadian, Alan Storey, T & T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner and Chris Welsby. ...
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts: Life-Size: Photographs by Cynthia Greig
Any sense of natural order or familiarity is disturbed by the uneasy relationships found between human subjects and the miniscule objects they attempt to master. Greigs photographs examine the betrayal of appearance, and the deception of nostalgi...
DELUXE-ARTS Gallery and Creative Space: The Jokes on Us
The show, which opens with Rosie Coopers renowned Oscar acceptance speech, promises an eclectic mix of style and medium, from sound and video installations to performance events, combining in joyful celebration of the daft and obscure. Visual il...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: L'ÉCHO DES LIMBES: David Altmejd, Patrice Duhamel, Michael A. Robinson and Ève K. Tremblay
Whether through dreams, tales, delirium or the absurd, these artists create a multi-referential iconography opening onto parallel worlds. They propose the exploration of an elsewhere, of an outside time, even of another duration, in which the proc...
New-York Historical Society: From the Classroom to the World: Hine, Ulman, Strand, Arbus and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
From the Classroom to the World represents the first exhibition to examine the crucial, formative role of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the work of some of the United States' most important photographers, whose work helped define the cou...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Performing Photography
Performing Photography features a range of images of performances, from those staged specifically for the camera to documentation of public performance works. On view is a work by Vito Acconci for which he shot a p...
Photographer's Gallery: YR1: A Snapshot of Bitain in the 21st Century
During World War II, the photograph taken in 1940 showing St Paul's Cathedral during an air raid in the midst of burning London has become a key image illustrating Britain's determination to survive adversity. The Lewis Morley black/w...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Altered Landscape: the Carol Franc Buck Collection
Focusing in large part on the topography of the new West - a region that represents some of the most challenged landscapes in America - ...
Sin Sin Fine Art: Prints: Limited Editions and Monotypes
Beijing artist Bai Xincheng (b.1957) has devoted himself to the study of lines. The unique position of line in his art stems from his unorthodox training in his formative years and his training in calligraphy. Bais line serves as a connection bet...

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