The Colby College Museum of Artpresents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White an exhibition, on view uly 9, 2011 – October 2, 2011.
In the 1930s, photographers pushed the genre of documentary photography to the forefront of public culture in the United States and onto the walls of newly opened museums and art galleries. This exhibition, focusing exclusively on the work of American photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White, provides new insights into that historic development. Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Colby Museum, the exhibition comes to Waterville after its display at the Amon Carter and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Colby Museum, the exhibition comes to Waterville after its display at the Amon Carter and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Berenice Abbott Canyon, Broadway and Exchange Place, 1936 Gelatin silver print, 9 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches National Gallery of Art, Gift of Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
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