UBS Gifts Photographs of US Landscapes to the National Gallery of Art
A donation of photographs from UBS to the National Gallery of Art chronicles land use in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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A donation of photographs from UBS to the National Gallery of Art chronicles land use in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
a href= https://www.nga.gov target= _blank The National Gallery of Art /a has received 166 19th- and 20th-century photographs from the UBS Art Col
In the 1990s, curator John Szarkowski was tapped by PaineWebber’s CEO Donald Marron to amass a collection of photography for the stock brokerage firm’s art…
Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston
Ansel Adams, American photographer who was the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century. He is perhaps the most widely known and beloved photographer in the history of the U.S. Many of his photographs were of national parks and other protected areas of the American West.