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Ron Tarver Art

American, b. 1957
Ron Tarver is a professor of Studio Art specializing in Photography at Swarthmore College. He served as staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Black and White Magazine. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins in 2004, which was accompanied by a traveling exhibition. Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize at the Inquirer for his work on a series documenting school violence in the Philadelphia public school system, and was nominated for a second Pulitzer in 2013 for a series exploring dog-training programs in prisons. A recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts, he has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as an Independence Foundation Fellowship. He was named one of the Delaware Valley's "50 Rising Stars in the Arts" by Seven Arts Magazine and is a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 30 solo and 50 group exhibitions and is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Oklahoma Museum of History, and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Tarver offers private photography instruction, workshops, and photo excursions through his company, Photo-Ops.
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Artist: Ron Tarver
Ride By North Philly Rows: Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia
Ride By North Philly Rows: Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia

Ride By North Philly Rows: Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This photograph of a Black African American cowboy in the urban city of Philadelphia pictured against the city's iconic row homes is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, "The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

The Basketball Game: Black African American urban cowboys in Philadelphia
The Basketball Game: Black African American urban cowboys in Philadelphia

The Basketball Game: Black African American urban cowboys in Philadelphia

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This photograph of a Black African American cowboy in the urban city of Philadelphia pictured with the city's iconic Fletcher Street Urban Riders is part of artist Ron Tarver's long...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Double Dutch #16: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Double Dutch #16: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

Double Dutch #16: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...

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1980s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Double Dutch #3: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Double Dutch #3: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

Double Dutch #3: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...

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1980s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Bombay Hook Wildlife Reserve: large black & white landscape photograph w/ sepia
Bombay Hook Wildlife Reserve: large black & white landscape photograph w/ sepia

Bombay Hook Wildlife Reserve: large black & white landscape photograph w/ sepia

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This large-scale black and white landscape is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, " Land, Sea, Air," that explores the wide-ranging system of wetlands in the US National Wildlife Refuge. It depicts the wetlands of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining expanses of tidal salt marsh in the mid-Atlantic region. The refuge, located along the coast of Delaware, is mostly marsh, but also includes freshwater impoundments and upland habitats that are managed for other wildlife. Through his elegantly rendered naturalistic photos that verge on abstraction, Tarver investigates the delicate nature of the ecosystem, the government's precarious conservation policies, and our relationship to these unique spaces. This print is also in the collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. It ships rolled in a 36 "x 6" tube. Ron Tarver is a professor of Studio Art specializing in Photography at Swarthmore College. He served as staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, and his work has appeared in National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Black and White Magazine. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins in 2004, which was accompanied by a traveling exhibition. Tarver shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize at the Inquirer for his work on a series documenting school violence in the Philadelphia public school system, and was nominated for a second Pulitzer in 2013 for a series exploring dog...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Double Dutch #11: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Double Dutch #11: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

Double Dutch #11: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...

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1980s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Egrets in Flight: black & white photograph, silhouette of birds & trees in sky
Egrets in Flight: black & white photograph, silhouette of birds & trees in sky

Egrets in Flight: black & white photograph, silhouette of birds & trees in sky

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This black and white photograph of birds in flight against the sky is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, " Land, Sea, Air," that explores the wide-ranging syste...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Day into Night, Forsythe Wildlife Refuge: large black & white landscape photo
Day into Night, Forsythe Wildlife Refuge: large black & white landscape photo

Day into Night, Forsythe Wildlife Refuge: large black & white landscape photo

By Ron Tarver

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This large-scale black and white landscape is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, " Land, Sea, Air," that explores the wide-ranging system of wetlands in the US ...

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2010s Realist Ron Tarver Art

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Archival Pigment

Lilly Leaf Study #1

Lilly Leaf Study #1

By Ron Tarver

Located in Hudson, NY

Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 15. CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 11th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after September 11th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. ABOUT: In the hazy, warm New York summer, little is more refreshing than reclining on the beach in the mist of the icy ocean waves or enjoying a family trip to the country house. Each summer, Rice curates her favorite show, the Summertime Salon, which reminds us of this exact seasonal sentiment. The two, long walls of the gallery become mosaicked, top to bottom, side to side, in photographs that evoke all the preeminent feelings and memories of summer. Each year, the Summertime Salon matures and Rice’s annual masterpiece comes into fruition. This year is no exception. The show is a haven of what the Robin Rice Gallery stands for, a community of art and experience. As the largest annual exhibition, the Summertime Salon is carefully pieced together, the results are staggering. The works of the 53 gallery artists come together communally, reinforcing the overall sense of unity that the show creates as a whole. In knowing the photographs so fluently, Rice strategically places them together in a way that will enhance the individual stories contained in each. Details from one image flow from into the next, elevating every photograph in a distinctly unique way. This year’s invitational image, “Surf Club” by Silvia Lareo-Vasquez, features a woman in a vintage sun hat...

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21st Century and Contemporary Ron Tarver Art

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Pigment

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