From our current exhibit - "The Modernist Impulse", Janet Lippincott's Untitled, ink on paper from 1959 #art #modernart #1950s (at Matthews Gallery)
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“I paint the white as well as the black, and the white is just as important.” - Franz Kline, born today in 1910.
[Installation view. Franz Kline. Chief. 1950. The Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2015 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Love this quote. Happy belated birthday to Franz Kline!
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Third Avenue, 1951
Photo by Esther Bubley
“I have found the human race. It is like finding one’s family at last.” -Esther Bubley
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If we could time travel, we head straight for this 1945 Bauhaus course...
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“Henri Cartier-Bresson”, c. 1953
By: ARA GULER….
Cartier-Bresson, pioneer of the under-teacup stealth shot.
Source: araguler.com.tr
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John Malkovich imitates Pablo Picasso in 2014, after Irving Penn's photograph from Cannes, 1957. Photo by Sandro Miller.
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Hannah Holliday Stewart and her family on the beach, 1950's. Learn more about the sculptor's life here.
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Robert Frank (b. November 9, 1924), is a photographer and creator of the highly influential “The Americans” series, which showed a different side of American life during the 1950s. He explores the social, racial, and economic dynamics that shaped America for what it was, for better or for worse. All of his photos in the series is named after the location the picture was taken in.
- Ranch Market, Hollywood, 1956
- Belle Isle, Detroit, 1955-6
- New Orleans, 1955-6
- Los Angeles, 1955-6
- St. Helena, South Carolina, 1955-6
- Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955-6
More great photography here.
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