1974
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray was a famous American filmmaker, painter and photographer. His career is distinctive, above all, for the success he achieved in both the United States and Europe. First maturing at the center of American modernism in the 1910s, he made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, he crossed the Atlantic once again and spent periods in New York and Hollywood.
Ray’s art spanned painting, sculpture, film, prints and poetry, and in his long career, he worked in styles influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. He also successfully navigated the worlds of commercial and fine art and came to be a sought-after fashion photographer. Ray is perhaps most remembered for his photographs of the inter-war years, in particular, the camera-less pictures he called "Rayographs," but he always regarded himself first and foremost as a painter. Although he matured as an abstract painter, Ray eventually disregarded the traditional superiority painting held over photography and happily moved between different forms. Dada and Surrealism were important in encouraging this attitude; they also persuaded him that the idea that motivates a work of art was more important than the work of art itself.
André Breton once described Ray as a pre-Surrealist, something which accurately describes his natural affinity for the style. Even before the movement had coalesced, in the mid-1920s, his work, influenced by Marcel Duchamp, had Surrealist undertones. He would continue to draw on the movement's ideas throughout his life. Ray's work has ultimately been very important in popularizing Surrealism.
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Bison Sculpture Outdoor Large Metal Sculpture Found Object Iron Assemblage
Located in Belgrade, MT
Brando is a life size Amercian Bison Sculpture. Kainz has composed this piece from thousands of cast off metal pieces, all found and collected in Montana. Each piece is welded on by ...
Iron
Single-Seater II, 2005
Located in Atlanta, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Iron
Le saut de mouton
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Iron, Bronze
Vestige
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Iron
Trapola per Angeli, 2010
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.” Ugo Riva is probably the...
Bronze, Iron
Trionfo della Memoria, 2007
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.” Ugo Riva is probably the...
Bronze, Iron
Hialeah Hurricane
Located in Atlanta, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Iron
Angeli
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.” Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Bronze, Iron
Que la fête commence
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Iron
Tête Lion-Buffle, 2016
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Iron
Visage
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
An early and stunningly beautiful hand-painted ceramic bowl created by Picasso in 1955, Visage measures 5 inches (12.8 cm) in diameter and is Inscribed 'Edition Picasso/Madoura' (bot...
Ceramic, Earthenware
Target with Four Faces
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 1979, the iconic Target with Four Faces is an intaglio print in colors on Rives paper. Hand-signed in pencil, dated, and numbered from the edition of 88, the...
Intaglio
Untitled
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Published to aid the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, Untitled, 1976 is the frontispiece from the artist’s, Our Unfinished Revolution portfolio, created by Alexander Ca...
Lithograph
Histórias Tropicais II
By Beatriz Milhazes
Located in New York, NY
With imagery consistent with the rain forest that surrounds the artist’s home and studio in Rio de Janeiro where she lives and works, Brazilian artist, Beatriz Milhazes brings vibran...
Screen
Art & Learning (for the Guggenheim Museum), Milton Glaser
By Milton Glaser
Located in New York, NY
Created as an original screenprint in 1974 by Milton Glaser, Art and Learning is hand-signed in pencil, titled and numbered, measuring 23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm), unframed, from th...
Screen
David's Pool at Night, Howard Hodgkin
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Executed by the artist between 1979 and 1985, David’s Pool at Night is an etching and aquatint with hand-coloring by British colorist, Howard Hodgkin. The artwork measures 25 1/8 x...
Etching, Aquatint
Donated by John Pritzker, the collection includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and more.
One of the 20th century's most important female photographers is finally being recognized as a daring and seminal artist.
