Artist: Paul Strand (1890 - 1976)
Nationality: American
Movement:
Media: Photography
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Biography:
Paul Strand took up photography in New York city during the 1910’s. Not long after, he had established a reputation of both a photographer and a painter. He traveled to New Mexico in 1926, and later returned there in the summers to make portraits of his friends and acquaintances there. Strand then traveled to Mexico to photograph the landscapes, architecture, and native culture of the county and also produced a film about fisherman for the Mexican government in 1834. He also collaborated with Charles Sheeler on the film, “Manhatta” about urban life. By 1934, Strand had returned to New York and began working in theater and filmmaking. He returned to still-imagery in 1943, taking pictures of the New England environment and inhabitants. He moved to Europe in the early 1950’s where he spent time in Northern Italy and Scotland. In the 1960’s, Strand traveled across North and West Africa.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1916 Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)Depicted: Connecticut, United States of AmericaSilver and
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Lusetti Family, Luzzara, Italy
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Blind, 1916 Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)Depicted: New York City, New York, United States of AmericaPlatinum
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: New York Date: 20th century Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.5-3/16 x W.6-7/16
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
s Artist: Paul Strand Title: Window, Red River, New Mexico Date: 1931 Medium: platinum print
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Photograph-New York Date: 20th century Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.6-11/16 x W.7-7/16
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Photograph-New York Date: 20th century Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.9-1/2 x W.6-11/16
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Photograph-New York Date: 20th century Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.8-13/16 x W.6-11/16
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Photograph-New York Date: 20th century Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.8-7/8 x W.6-9/16
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Drilling Machine Date: 1928 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.7-1/2 x
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Strand Title: Young Boy, Gondeville, France Date: 1951 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions:
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Mother and Child, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1933, printed 1940, Photogravure
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Man-Tenancingo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Man with a Hoe-Los Remedios, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Boy-Uruapan, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Boy-Hidalgo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Near Saltillo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Drilling Machine, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , circa 1926, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Mexican Portfolio, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Calvario-Patzcuaroin, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Gateway-Hidalgo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Cristo-Oaxaca, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Woman and Boy-Tenancingo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Woman-Patzcuaro, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Church-Coapiaxtla, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Cristo with Thorns-Huexotla, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Young Woman and Boy-Toluca, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Virgin-San Felipe-Oaxaca, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Men of Santa Anna-Michoacan, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Girl and Child-Toluca, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Cristo-Tlacochoaya-Oaxaca, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Woman and Baby-Hidalgo, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Plaza-State of Puebla, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Akeley Camera, New York, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1922, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Ranchos de Taos Church, New Mexico, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1931, Platinum print
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Women of Santa Anna-Michoacan, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1940, printed 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Deserted Church #3, Near Taos, New Mexico, Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1932, printed 1932, Platinum print
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The White Fence (Port Kent, N.Y.), Paul Strand (United States, New York, New York City, 1890-10-16 - 1976-03-31) , 1916, printed 1950, Gelatin-silver print
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Paul Strand - Photograph n.d. photogravure The Royal Photographic Society American
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Paul Strand - Rebecca 1922 platinum print National Gallery of Art American
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Paul Strand - The Family, Luzzara 1953 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Le château de Rosendal en Suède (1ère moitié 19e siècle) by manufacture de Röstrand (manufacture)
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Colonel Robert R.P.E. Goff Strand on the Green, 1903 Etching 1903
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Francis Dodd, R.A. The Strand, London, with sky black Etching 19th - 20th century
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Erich Heckel Am Strand (On the Beach) Woodcut early 20th century
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Paul Strand - Chair Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut 1916 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Arnold Genthe Untitled (Young girl holds a strand of wheat) from the Chinatown Series Gelatin silver print circa 1896
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Thomas Rowlandson Somerset House, Strand Etching with watercolor 1808
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Joseph Raphael Strand, Ostend Etching 1912
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Strand Theatre, Keyport, N.J., George A. Tice (United States, New Jersey, Newark, born 1938) , 1973, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Robert Batty Palace Church and Gammel's Strand, Copenhagen, plate 43 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Thomas Robert Way Strand Lane, plate 23 in the book Later Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1897) lithograph 1897
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Thomas Robert Way Houses on the South Side of the Strand, plate 2 in the book Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896) lithograph 1893
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Thomas Robert Way Houses on the North Side of the Strand, frontispiece and plate 1 in the book Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896) lithograph 1894
Museum of Fine Arts -
Arthur Clifton Goodwin, American, 1864-1929 Strand Theatre about 1919 Oil on board 43.5 x 53.97
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Street Vendor
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Paul Cezanne - The Artist's Son, Paul 1885-1890 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Octopus, 1912 Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born America, 1882-1966)Depicted: New York City, New York,
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Paul Pontius Portrait of Paul Pontius (Paul de Pont) Graveur Engraving 17th century
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PIVOINES (2e moitié 19e siècle ; 1er quart 20e siècle) by GACHET Dr Paul, VAN RYSSEL Paul (dit) ; CEZANNE Paul (d'après)

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Griffin Contemporary: Paul Strand: Works 1915-1954
"Manhatta" was shot in New York within a five-block radius that encompassed Battery Park, the Staten Island Ferry docks, Wall Street, and Trinity Place -a location of significance for Americans today. The film is a non-narrative sequence of formal...
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...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Photogravure: Photographs in Ink
Photographers who have used this process include P. H. Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward S. Curtis, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, and Bernice Ficek-Swenson. This exhibition features about 75 photogravures, ...
Artwise.com.au: A Home for Sculpture
The strength of this site will be the passion and commitment apparent in the work of the artists who choose to show here, and the community they generate together. As far as possible, this service remains entirely free of cost to the artist...
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...
Sanlam Art Gallery: A Decade of Hard Ground Printmaking
Such an artist is Jonathan Comerford. His workshop Hard Ground Printmakers will be celebrating its 10th year of independent printmaking with an exhibition in the Sanlam Art Gallery at 2 Strand Road, Bellville as from 20 November. Printma...
Courtauld Institute of Art: Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836
Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836; it is the experience of those exhibitions that the Courtauld seeks to recreate. Some 300 Royal Academy exhibits, all of which first went on public view at Somerset House, will be brought tog...
Artwise Sculpture Gallery: Call for Links from Sculptors
The strength of this site will be the passion and commitment apparent in the work of the artists who show here, and the community they generate together. As far as possible, this service remains entirely free of cost to the artist. A free p...
National Gallery of Art: Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Highlights include the finest works from the series of paintings and drawings inspired by Sheeler's photographs of the River Rouge plant, commissioned by Ford Motor Company in 1927. Also featured is "Manhatta" (1920), a collaboration between Sheel...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Beyond the Rainbow: Maguey Textiles of Guatemala
Curator Kathy Rousso will hold a free hands-on workshop on Saturday July 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. She will be demonstrating how to create small net bags using similar techniques to those displayed in the exhibition. All ages are welcomed. Please call...
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...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: Residencies March 1 - 2, 2004
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. This secession the master artists are Carolee Schneeman - visual artist, Mark Strand - poet, and John Zorn - musician/composer. The master artists each personally sel...
Phillips Auctioneers: Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg to Auction Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art
Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg will auction the Diethelm Hoener Collection of 20th Century German Art on Monday, November 5 at 11:00 am. Among the highlights of the collection are two rare beach scenes by Max Liebermann, which illustrate...
John Russell Gallery: Nicola Slattery: New Works
Although paintings by Slattery now command upwards of two or three thousand pounds her hand made limited edition prints can still be bought for less than five hundred making them accessible and ver...
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art: Heli Rekula: DESERT, works from 1989-2004
Exhibition on two floors brings together nearly all works by Rekula to date. The exhibition presents over 60 photographs from the series Portraits, Meeting with and Erotic Artist, Pilgrimage, Landscapes and Body, as well as eight video works. ...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Dorothy Cross: Sculpture, Installation, Performance, Photography and Film
In his foreword to the catalogue IMMA Director, Enrique Juncosa, the curator of the exhibition, describes Cross’s art as “a poetic amalgamation of found and constructed objects; sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, always intellectually stimu...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Photogravures from the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz, one of America's most influential photographers, was known internationally as an advocate of modernism. One of the principal object...
Institute of International Visual Arts: Jigar: Films by Alia Syed
Alia Syed's evocative and poetic film-works embrace a wide range of film practices, refusing to sit in a single, definable form. Classic feminist agendas, issues of representation, fragmented narratives and the urban landscape play alongside Sy...
Santa Ana Council on Arts and Culture: FIFTH ANNUAL SANTA ANA ARTWALK FEATURES KALEIDOSCOPE OF FINE ART
Santa Anas vigorous mission to become a cultural and arts Mecca has attracted internationally renowned as well as emerging artists to the conclaves and galleries of the Santa Ana art scene. The public is invited to experience the diverse co...
Laurence Miller Gallery: The Abstracted Landscape : Work by 4 International Artists
Peter Bialobrzeski, in his series Lost in Transition, photographs rapid urbanization and industrialization by taking very long exposures, which create other-worldly colors and lighting not visible to the naked eye. Stephane Couturier embraces the...
Bendixen Contemporary Art: Boarding: Jonas Hvid Sondergaard
Furthermore, Nordic influences and themes and the occasional nod to the sublime are also part of these discordant elements that compel us to question the visible forms themselves – are they really simplified familiar structures, or are they abstra...
American Theatre of Actors: HOME IS WHERE YOU FIND IT - EVEN FOR PEARLDIVERS
Set in Londons East End in the not-too-distant past, a squalid squat is the home of Ally - an Irish Sociopath; The Prof - an English book thief whos unhappy with his sexuality; and Terry and Ronny - lifelong friends who crossed over from Irelan...
Bendixen Contemporary Art: Alexander Tovborg: I Tell You Weird Tales
Our perception is obscured by one or more of his many obstacles, be it industrial tape or a mass of silicone, and yet the obstruction is in the end just a piece of the puzzle, a fragment of the whole.  Currently at the Danish Royal Academy of Art,...
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: Ansel Adams: A Life s Work
In the five years leading up to his death in 1984, Adams selected 75 photographs he felt best represented the range and quality of his work. Now, this Museum Set is coming to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapo...
Dallas Museum of Art: Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Art in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1950 features more than 50 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by some of Mexico’s most famous artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and ...
Camera Club of New York: Call for Artists : 2009 NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
CCNY is dedicated to continuing its long tradition of welcoming both photographers and devotees of photography and encouraging their participation through memberships, classes, lectures, exhibitions and a residency program. Since its founding CCNY...
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 ...
Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a renewed interest. Beginning with P...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Matterart: Pauline Burbidge - Textiles, Charles Poulsen - Sculpture
Pauline Burbidge's large-scale quilted textile wall hangings use imagery that is inspired by the countryside around her. She incorporates freeform collage and stitching techniques within her work and in this exhibition will be using digital photog...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Edmund Teske: Images Out of Time
A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year pursuit of artistic freedom. His early training at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s offered Teske import...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection
This survey of over 150 works tracks the history of the medium during the most vital age of American photography, from the invention of the hand-held camera through the age of digitally manipulated photos. It includes rare images, vintage prints a...
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...
Sanlam Art Gallery: Art for the People, Not for the Boardroom
The prestigious collection found its unlikely origin in, of all things, road-safety advertising. In the late Sixties the company was focusing its promotional material on a road-safety campaign. The then-chairman, Dr Andreas Wassenaar, was str...
Smart Museum of Art: Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
Through a tightly focused installation and comprehensive catalogue, Canceled will evoke the milieu of contemporary Chinese artists, foster the (re)discovery of a canceled exhibition, and call attention to the im...
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...
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 ...
Cohen Amador Gallery: Thomas Kellner: Tango Metropolis
The intrigue of Kellner's work lies in its simultaneous participation in avant-gardist and historical photographic discourses while maintaining a level of individuality and aesthetic merit that captures the eye and refuses to let go. Aligned in t...
Bendixen Contemporary Art: What Goes Around Comes Around: Cecilia Westerberg
The film is seen as if one was lying on the ground, looking up into the sky, and as the film brings the viewer through the day, the cheery sound of signing birds turns to a silent forest night.  As the darkness grows, the abstract yet natural soun...
Georgia O'Keefe Museum: VIRTUOSO WORKS ON PAPER BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
The exhibition is organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It is made possible by The Burnett Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundat...

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