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February 13, 2020|Daile Kaplan|Photographs & Photobooks

Artist Profile: Edward Steichen’s Foray into Color Photography

Our winter-spring 2020 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs on February 25 is set to offer a rare color image by Edward Steichen. Here Daile Kaplan, the house’s director of photographs and photobooks, presents Steichen’s love for horticulture and the photographer’s employment of color images.

September 4, 2019 | Illustration art

Artist Profile: Charles Addams

With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous funny bones and sore spots. Here we discuss his contributions to The New Yorker and his famous kooky family.

August 30, 2019 | African-American Fine Art

Artist Profile: Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the New York Modern Art scene grew. Here we discuss Lewis’s rise from the margins to art market center.

July 8, 2019 | Photographs & Photobooks

Artist Profile: Margaret Bourke-White

From the daguerreian age of the 1840s, photography has been an equal-opportunity pastime. One artist who truly pushed the envelope was Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), an ambitious photographer of many firsts.

Artist Profile

Artist Profile: Edward Steichen’s Foray into Color Photography

Artist Profile: Charles Addams

Artist Profile: Norman Lewis

Artist Profile: Margaret Bourke-White

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