Artist: Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904)
Nationality: British-American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Eadweard Muybridge moved to the United States in his early twenties where he became interested in the western landscape. He was involved in a stagecoach incident and then returned to England to study photography. In 1867, he ventured back to America and began a photography career. In 1827, Muybridge met the railroad tycoon and governor of California, Leland Stanford. Stanford made bet that at one point during a horse’s gallop, all four of its hooves are off the ground and hired Muybridge to prove it photographically. Using a trip-shutter, high-speed photography, and twenty-four cameras, he proved Stanford correct. Continuing with this idea, Mubridge completed his “Animal Locomotion” studies in 1887.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (17)
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Eadweard Muybridge Title: Animal Locomotion Date: 1887 Medium: collotype Dimensions: H.18-1/2 x W.23-1/2 in.
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Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, plate 153 from the book Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements . Commenced 1872-Completed 1885 by Eadweard Muybridge... (Philadelphia:University of Pennsyl
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Running (Galloping)
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Eadweard Muybridge - Panorama of San Francisco from California 1877 albumen print from w Cincinnati Art Museum British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Eadweard J. Muybridge, American, 1830-1904 Valley of the Yosemite from Union Point 1872 Photograph, albumen
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Eadweard Muybridge - Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford 1872 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Study of Muscular Action
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Eadward Muybridge - Muybridge swinging pickaxe, plate 521 from Animal Locomotion 1887 collotype The Royal Photographic Society British
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Thomas Eakins An Arcadian bronze 1883
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Thomas Eakins Study "Negress" oil on canvas ca. 1867 - 1869
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Thomas Eakins Frank Jay St. John oil on canvas 1900
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Thomas Eakins James L. Jackson photograph circa 1883
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Thomas Eakins Professor William Woolsey Johnson oil on canvas circa 1896
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Thomas Eakins The Courtship oil on canvas circa 1878
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Thomas Eakins Frances Crowel and Her Child albumen print circa 1888
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Thomas Eakins Ben, Will, Artie or Tom Crowel albumen print circa 1885 - 1890
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Thomas Eakins Man in a Turban Graphite over charcoal on blue-green laid paper 1866 - 1867

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (17)
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National Gallery: Telling Time: The relationship between time and the still image.
One area explored in the exhibition in the Sunley Room is how artists have depicted or described movement, from freezing instants of imbalance to the use of the blur. Another technique was employed by one of the most sustained of all the invest...
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...
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 ...
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...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West
Well-known early photographers such as Carleton E. Watkins, William H. Jackson, and Eadweard Muybridge are represented, along with contemporary photographers including Karen Halverson, Mark Klett, Gus Foster, Robert Dawson, Stuart Klipper, Cath...
Laurence Miller Gallery: Duane Hanson: Photographs
The opportunity to view these photographs, which Hanson created as studies for his iconic hyperrealist sculptures, represents a watershed in Hanson's oeuvre and initiates meditation on the relationship between photography, sculpture, art and life....
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...
Americas Society: Picturing Guatemala: Images From the CIRMA Photography Archive, 1870-1997
Many of the photographs on view will be rare vintage prints, including a number of nineteenth-century cartes ...
SLO Arts Gallery, Frame Works: James A. Crawford: New Photographic
Crawford's interest in art began in high school and further developed at Orange Coast College where he majored in Architecture and minored in History and Art. In 1966 while in Viet Nam he purchased his first 35mm camera and with limited time, he w...
Marlborough Gallery: Francis Bacon: Paintings
Marlborough’s show will consist of nine works as follows: three quintessential triptychs dating from 1970, 1983 and 1986-87, each panel measuring 78 x 58 inches; a rare 1957 painting of a pope, measuring 60 x 46 1/2 inches; Study for Self Portr...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Francis Bacon
The paintings on view will include the famous series of Popes, his works based on Van Gogh, portraits of his friend and companion George Dyer and a large number of monumental triptychs, including one - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Cr...
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...
Catto Contemporary: Private and Confidential: Works by Predrag Pajdic
In the series of panels, we see a development, an active circular progression and regression; a figure initially crouched, then gradually rising up, alert and alive, then perhaps sensing his own humanity, his existential angst, he screams, like a ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Phoenix Art Museum: All 73 sculptures by Edgar Degas
Featured among Degas’s celebrated dancers, bathers and horses in Degas in Bronze is the famed Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. This single sculpture, worked on by Degas for two years, may be the most historically important sculpture in French art of...
San Diego Museum of Art: Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures
The collection of 73 sculptures in the show is one of only four complete sets of Degas bronzes, which were cast shortly after the artist’s death, in existence. They come from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, and their presentation is organi...

Further Artwork and Information:

Masters of Photography: Eadweard Muybridge
UCR/CMP: Eadweard Muybridge
UCR/CMP: Eadweard Muybridge
Freeze Frame
Eadweard Muybridge Online
Adventures in CyberSound: Muybridge, Eadweard
Eadweard Muybridge
MOMI - CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY
Eadweard J. Muybridge (Getty Museum)
Michael Dawson Gallery / Dawsons Book Shop

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