The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Emmet Gowin [1941-] was originally a student of Harry Callahan's, and the presumed association seems apt, judging from the work alone. From the beginning, Gowin displayed the same reverential regard for family and a self-contained, attentive interest in immediate surroundings that had characterized his master's oeuvre. His first major monograph, Emmet Gowin Photographs [Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
PRINCETON, NJ.- After thirty-six years of teaching at Princeton University, photographer Emmet Gowin retires at the end of 2009. To mark the occasion, to honor Gowin's generosity as a teacher and perpetual student, and to celebrate his artistic legacy, the Princeton University Art Museum will present Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait, on view October 24, 2009, through February 21, 2010. The exhibition...
Art (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
[ September 26, 2009 to February 21, 2010. ] Hide & Seek: Picture Childhood Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Sept. 26 to Feb. 21, 2010 [ad#lb] Exploring our fascination with childhood as captured throughout photography’s history, Hide & Seek: Picture Childhood will feature 45 works by 42 photographers from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection. Among the works are a stunning mid-19th-century...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- A memoir by Brian H. Peterson, The Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the Michener Art Museum has just been released. A Meet-the-Author event will be held Tuesday, July 7 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Ann and Herman Silverman Pavilion. The Smile at the Heart of Things: Essays and Life Stories is copublished by the Michener and Tell Me Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Emmet Gowin Edith, Danville, 1971 Gelatin silver print, 1976
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
BOISE.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) announces the first solo museum exhibition by Idaho photographer Susan Valiquette. Her work was last shown at BAM in the 2004 Idaho Triennial exhibition, which was juried by Arthur C. Danto, one of America's most inventive and influential art critics and philosophers. Valiquette's Portraits of Courage consists of 20 black and white portraits of Idaho
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