University of Pennsylvania Libraries receives major gift of works by renowned photographer Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress, Secret Conversation, New York (1980), Facing Up series. Arthur Tress Photography Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-The University of Pennsylvania Libraries announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress (b. 1940, Brooklyn). Generously given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection part of which has already been appraised at $4.2M joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy, PAR97, and Patricia Kennedy, PAR97, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints. Together these collections document Tresss diverse and fascinating career and represent the largest collection of Tress photographic prints in the United States. In 2018, Tress, among the most original artists of his generation, gave the Penn Libraries his collect