Artist: Gordon Parks (1912 - )
Nationality: African-American
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Media: Photography
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Gordon Parks - Parishioners 1988 Gelatin Silver print Birmingham Museum of Art American
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David Lance Goines, The San Francisco Mime Troupe/ Free in the Parks, 1970
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Gordon Cook, Geraniums, 1959
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Sir Joshua Reynolds - Jane, Duchess of Gordon 1775-78 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art British
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Gordon Mortensen, Meadowland, 1977
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Gordon Cook, Vessel #1, 1953
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Gordon Cook, Stairwell, 1951
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Gordon Cook, Self-Portrait, 1951
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Gordon Cook, Headland III, 1962
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Gordon Cook, M. W., 20th century
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Gordon Cook, Headland IV, 1963
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Gordon Cook, Jar of Flowers, 1973
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Russell T. Gordon, Skyscrape, 1974
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Russell T. Gordon, Sky Vision, 1974
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Russell T. Gordon, Untitled, 1981
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Gordon Mortensen, The Big Sur River, 1978
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: B, 1994
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: C, 1994
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: D, 1994
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: A, 1994
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Russell T. Gordon, untitled, 1981
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: F, 1994
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified Reflections: E, 1994
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Edward Gordon Craig, Moses, 1909
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Gordon Cook, Crucifixion, circa 1951
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Gordon Cook, Montara Beach, 1961
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Gordon Cook, Roof Tops, 1951
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Gordon Cook, Seated Nude, 1974
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Gordon Gilkey, Unclassified 201, 20th century
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Gordon Hope Grant, Fog Over Gloucester, 1941
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Gordon Gilkey, Recess, 20th century
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Gordon Gilkey, Sanctuary, 20th century
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Gordon Cook, Untitled (near Terminous), 1984
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Russell T. Gordon, Tulip Table, 1974
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Gordon Cook, Nude, 20th century
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Gordon Mortensen, Shades of Winter, 1978
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Gordon Cook, Untitled [Sleeping nude], 1973
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Gordon Cook, Untitled (water tower), 1984
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Gordon Hope Grant, Drifting In, 1934
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Gordon Onslow- Ford, Water Begin, 1961

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Michael C. Carlos Museum: Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks
It is co-curated by Philip Brookman, curator of photography and media arts at the Corcoran, and Deborah Willis, curator at the Center for African-American H...
Oakland Museum of California: Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks
The 88-year-old Parks is best known as a photojournalist, but this exhibition is the first time all genres of his art will be shown together. Using such media as film, poetry and music, Parks expresses his own search for compassion during a time i...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Gordon Parks: Photojournalism
These photographs by Gordon Parks offer insights into the African-American experience during the mid-20th century, notes Tom Hinson, CMA’s curator of photography. He describes the human condition, ...
www.artnut.com: ON-LINE DIRECTORY of SCULPTURE PARKS
From Storm King, Pepsico, the Newly opened Sculpture Park of the National Gallery on the Mall, to the fabulous Fondation Maeght (St Paul de Vence) and, of course, Louisiana near Copenhagen; see it all at www.artnut.com URL created by San Francisco...
Hudson River Museum: Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks and related programs are made possible by AOL Time Warner and Ford Motor Company. Additional support is provided by the Glen Eagles Foundation, Cone-Laumont Editions, Ltd., Laumont Labs, and Time Life Photo L...
Seattle Arts Commission: Call for Artists: Projects for Three Parks
Applications and the Pro Parks art plan are available on the Arts Commission Web site at www.cityofseattle.net/arts (select "Funding Opportunities) or by calling 206-615-1801. Applications must be at t...
Andy Warhol Museum: The Architecture of Reassurance - Designing the Disney Theme Parks
The - Disney - Factory: An Interactive Room A special interactive room adjacent to the exhibition ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890
William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890 presents a remarkable group of the painter’s outdoor scenes of New York. The ...
Andy Warhol Museum: Andy Warhol Museum's Community Forums On line

WHERE DOES LIFE IMITATE DISNEYNULL July 26 - August 29 Moderated by Anna Couey, Telecommunications Artist Where Does Life Imitate DisneyNULL From planned housing and suburban malls to virtual worlds of the fu...
West Harlem Art Fund, Inc: Call for Artists: Temporary Public Art Installations
LOCATION (S) OF ARTWORK The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc. and the Artists Selection Committee are seeking proposals that embrace strong visual appeal and sensitivity that will attract more visitors and residents to several private and public lo...
Museum of London: A Public Portfolio: Photographs of London by Henry Grant
These compelling black and white photographs capture Londoners of all ages as they go about their daily lives. They provide an intriguing record of the massive social changes that took place as Britain moved from p...
City of Mercer Island - Parks and Recreation Department: Call for Artists:Mercer Island Veteran's Recognition Project
Please see the following link to print a "Call For Artist" http://www.ci.mercer-island.wa.us/RFP.asp. The contact person for this project is Diane Mortenson, Recreation Coordinator, 206...
ArtSpace: The Neddy Project: Ty Moore
The other Ned Kelly the famous masked outlaw from Victoria. Moore presents an epic ten-channel video cycle depicting abstracted moments of each Neddy's life. There are drawn out hand shakes at the tops of car parks, extended gun battles on cliff...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Parks and Promenades: Maurice Prendergast
The exhibition is made possible by Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. Prendergast's highly finished Boston Public Garden watercolors glimpse those intimate details of daily life — mother...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Enclosed and Enchanted
United by an interest in architecture and how the outside world can be reconfigured in the context of the gallery, these artists examine the duality in man-made, yet natural, spaces. The result is a kind of double enclosure, in which the appropria...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: New and Reccent Works by Ricky Swallow and Erick Swensen
From science fiction to theme parks, Swallow's works draw on popular culture utilising a range of everyday and recycled materials. Swallow’s work will be presented alongside the sculptures of American artist Erick Swenson, making this the first...
Orlando Museum of Art: Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Later in the century, other artists such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas ...
City of Mercer Island - Parks and Recreation Department: Call For Artist - Mercer Island, WA Public Art Sculpture Project
Entries Due: April 19, 2002 Commission Announced: May 14, 2002 Installation Complete: October 2002 For a complete Call For Artists, please visit: http://www.ci.merc...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal: 2004 Montreal Biennale: Agora - The publis Domain
"A city isn't just a place to live, to shop, to go out and have kids play. It's a place that implicates how one derives one's ethics, how one develops a sense of justice, how one learns to talk with and learn from people who are unlike oneself, wh...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Leisureland - Anne Zahalka
Focussing on theme parks, entertainment centres, shopping arcades, indoor rock climbing, gyms, aquariums, video game parlours, cinemas and sporting complexes, the photographs reveal the artificial nature of these environments. Nature and the real ...
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art: Scripted Spaces
The title of the exhibition refers to the installation 'Scripted Spaces: The Chase and the Labyrinth' presented by the critic and novelist Norman Klein, in collaboration with ...
Aron Packer Gallery: Mitch O’Connell: Great Investment Potential
Two books of Mitch's art have been published, "Good Taste Gone Bad" and "Pwease Wuv Me". Reviewers wrote, "His art snap crackles and pops with sex, iconography and black velvet paintings"-The Boston Globe and "Bewitching Kitsch!"-Village Voice....
Art Scene China: A Private Playground: Oil Paintings by Xie Qi
Xie Qis innocent-looking oil paintings of children in playgrounds, sometimes on swings, slides or see-saws are inspired by the artist’s nostalgic of her youth. The dream-like paintings of this young female artist are materializations of her own c...
California Museum of Photography: Back to the Ranch: Photographs of the Diminishing East Bay Cattle Industry
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Dundas Street Gallery: Fine Art From Thailnad - A Contemporary Medley of Young Artists from Bangkok and Chiang Mai
The artwork comes to Edinburgh fresh from our exclusive solo exhibit in London, featuring particularly the unique work of Kitti Narod, whose Thai imagination draws on Australian aboriginal techniques to create buoyant compositions that intrigue...
Labyrinth Society: LABYRINTHS FOR PEACE: 2000
Unlike a maze with its many paths, the single winding path of a labyrinth moves one back and forth to the center, requiring only that the walker place one foot in front of the other. Often the experience slows one's breathing, focuses th...
Viridian Artists: Stephen Garmey: Recent Sculptures
Although constructed of wood, not stone, more than one reviewer has said the essence and tension in Garmey's works recalls Stonehenge or the Straits of Corinth. The works are modest in size, but the artistí's mastery brings a sense of massiveness ...
Kunstverein Nuernberg: SUSTAINABLE PROPAGANDA: a project by Oliver Ressler
Since the 1992 Rio Summit at the latest, the ecological question has been articulated almost exclusively in terms of the world wide debate on sustainable development. The discourse flows from questions of modernization, down-sizing, efficiency,...
Russian Realism Art League: Call for Artists: Workshops Offered this Summer in St. Petersberg
Artists will work side-by-side with painting masters who developed the traditions of Russian Realism and Impressionism. The workshops will give artists an opportunity to paint the city that, with its many rivers, canals and variety of architectura...

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Gale - Free Resources - Black History Month - Biographies - Gordon Parks
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Online NewsHour: Gordon Parks -- January 6, 1998
Gordon Parks Retrospective: Biography
Fort Scott Community College
AXE - Special Collections - Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks Online
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
Norton Museum of Art: Gordon Parks
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