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Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of 20th century New York City cultural figures, architecture and urban design, in particular through the WPA Federal Art Project. Early on in her career, she also worked in Paris, assisting in the studio of Man Ray. The Museum…
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine…
The German artist Anni Albers worked mainly in textiles, and through this medium challenged the separate notions of art and craft. Her work was abstract and focused on color theory, which greatly influenced Modernism. Along with her husband and fellow artist Josef Albers, she studied at the famous Bauhaus where…
Albers was a German-born artist, who worked in the U.S. as well. He was also a key modern art educator.
Charles Alston (1907-1977) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, teacher, and illustrator, who lived and worked in Harlem. After graduating high school in 1925, he attended Columbia University and turned down a scholarship to Yale. Alston was involved in the Harlem Renaissance and…