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Terry Evans
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans

1990

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TERRY EVANS (American b. 1944) "Between Kearny and Salina," June 13, 1990 Color photograph (chromogenic print, C Print) on photo paper, dated and hand signed in margin in pencil L/R, "September 4, 1990, Terry Evans," titled in margin in pencil L/L, 16" x 15 1/4", image 16 X 20 sheet. Matted, 24.25" x 20.25". Terry Evans (born in 1944) is an American photographer. After growing up in Kansas City, she moved to Salina, Kansas, where she was inspired to explore the themes of human relationship with the land. Evans' work explores the environmental impact of humans on the landscape in the American Midwest prairie and is notable for aerial perspective photos of prairies. Her work has been collected by several Museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1996 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in phot0. For most of her life, Terry Evans has lived in the American Midwest. Evan's career as an artist started in 1968 when she graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA in painting and commercial art. In 1996, Evans starting working on a body of work that studied the mixed-grass prairie landscape from its northern border in Canada, to its southern border in Texas. During this project, a new form of photography was used by the photographer, aerial photography. From a Cessna 172 aircraft, Evans photographed the landscape from miles above over the course of several years, creating captivating images. Interested in how the landscape changes from North to South, Evans was interested in capturing the landscape in a way that could tell stories about the prairies, showing its history and beauty, even when the land appeared to be damaged by development and fracking. The photographs Evans created in this series guided her photographic career, laying the groundwork for following projects and commissioned works. Over the course of her career, Terry Evans has been awarded several grants, including the 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and the 2006 Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship. In 2012, the Nelson-Atkins museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri exhibited the photographers first retrospective titled "Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans." The retrospective consisted on 100 photographs from Evans, ranging from early black and white portrait work starting in 1971, to the recent colorful images of aerial landscapes. Evans' major publications include Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait, Disarming the Prairie, and Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Devour the Land-War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970, Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums, 2021 Love in the Time of the Anthropocene, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 2021 Time and Place: Water, Sky, Land, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA 2019 The Power of Place, Spencer Museum of Art. A River Runs Through It, Museum of Nebraska Art 2018 Big Botany, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Gallery 2017 Other Romances, curated by Em Rooney, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Tracing Dirty Energy, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Picturing the Prairie, Figge Art Museum, No Mountains in the Way, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. 2013 Climate of Uncertainty, DePaul Museum of Art, Chicago, IL A Democracy of Images, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN 2012 The Altered Landscapes, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno American in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI (Alec Soth, Ansel Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Walker Evans, Aaron Siskind, Arthur Rothstein, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, Laura Gilpin, Lewis Baltz, Robert Frank, Uta Barth) 2011 Beautiful Vagabonds, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY Masterworks, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas. Winged Shadows, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe (Richard Misrach, Eliot Porter) Eye Wonder: Photography From the Bank of America Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2010 Proof, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA 2008 Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 Eyes on Collections, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History 2005 Otherworlds, Sofa Gallery, Indiana University National Academy of Science, Washington, DC Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence Homage to the Flint Hills, traveling exhibition 2002 Masterworks of American Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX Photographers and Writers, etc., Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Visions of America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001 In Response to Place, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Akron Museum of Art, Ohio; Center of Creative Photography, Tucson. GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2006 Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1995 Joliet Arsenal, Openlands Project, Chicago 1983 Mid-America Arts Alliance COLLECTIONS Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Nevada Museum of Art, Reno North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Creator:
    Terry Evans (1944, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1990
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. minor wear to frame. minor age toning as typical for medium.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38210821722
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