Colby museum receives 500 photos, including works of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange
Alumni Bill and Nancy Tsiaras give a gift from their extraordinary photography collection.
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Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965), “Squatters’ camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif.” 1935 Vintage gelatin silver print, 7⅜ × 9⅝ inches
Image courtesy of Colby College
The Colby College Museum of Art has received a gift of more than 500 photographs from the collection of alumni Dr. William Tsiaras and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras, expanding the museum’s photography holdings.
The collection features prints by Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen and Dorothea Lange, as well as works by Cuban photographers Pedro Abascal, Arien Chang, Alejandro González and Lissette Solórzano. The collection also includes works by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, artists who were both patients of Bill Tsiaras, a Providence-based ophthalmologist and medical professor. David Vestal, Joe Deal and Lucas Samaras, as well as Tsiaras’ brothers, the artists Philip and Alexander, are represented in the collection.