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Louis Stettner Subway New York 1946 Printed, circa 1990

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Louis Stettner, Subway New York, 1946, printed circa 1990. This image is illustrated the book " Traveling Light". It was published to celebrate a major acquisition of Stettner’s prints to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art of which a print of this image was one of them. Print size 15.5 x 15.9/16 Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work included street scapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets. Starting in 1947, Stettner photographed the changes in the people, culture, and architecture of both cities. He continued to photograph New York and Paris up until his death. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Akron Art Museum, Akron Art Institute of Chicago Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Brooklyn Museum of Art Centre Pompidou, Paris The Cleveland Museum of Art Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Des Moines Art Center Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn Foundation d’enterprise Hermès, Paris The Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Collection Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY International Center of Photography, New York The Jewish Museum, New York The Jewish Museum, Berlin The Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Art Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle Montana Museum of Art & Culture Musée de l’Élysée, Laussane Musée de l’Élysée, Paris Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Modern Art, New York Merrill Lynch Art Collection, New York The New York Public Library, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Princeton Art Museum, Princeton Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC Tate Modern, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2019 Louis Stettner: Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA* A Day To Remember, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp-Belgium* 2018 Traveling Light, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA* Color Photography, Tibor de Nagy, NY* 2016 Ici Ailleurs, Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France* 2012 Retrospective, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France* The First Ninety Years, Johanne Breede Gallery, Berlin, Germany* 2009 Paris // New York, Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France* Louis Stettner: Trésor des Rue, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY* 2007 Louis Stettner: Photographiesé – Peintures – Sculptures, La Galerie du Saint – James, Bouliac, France* 2006 Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY Louis Stettner, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany* Streetwise: 1947-2006, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY* Many Hands: Representation of Railroad Workers, New York Transit Museum, New York, NY 2004 Water Water Everywhere, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Les Choix d'Henri Cartier Bresson, Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson, Paris, France Women: A Celebration, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Unseen Stettner: 1946-2002, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY* What's New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Visions From America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
  • Creator:
    Louis Stettner (Artist)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 23.75 in (60.33 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
  • Style:
    Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1946
  • Condition:
    Excellent condition, mounted and acid free mounting behind museum glass and in a custom frame. Few chips to edge a frame.
  • Seller Location:
    Hudson, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU8210233636782

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