Traveling Exhibitions

 

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American Art and Artists

Posing Beauty In
African American Culture

Sally Mann:
The Family and The Land

Paul Outerbridge:
New Color Photographs
from Mexico and California

Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life

Yosuf Karsh:
Regarding Heroes


Modern/Contemporary Art

Uncanny Likeness: The
Contemporary Self-Portrait

Artists, Poets & Intimates:
Portraits of a Life
by Françoise Gilot

Modern Photography of the
Russian Avant-Garde

Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor

The Great Picture

Cuba Avant-Garde:
Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection

Book of Lies:
Volumes I, II, and III

André Kertész: On Reading


Artist Retrospectives

Mythopoetic Seeing:
Twenty-Five Years of Photographs
by Elisabeth Sunday

SAGA: The Journey of
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Thirty-Five Years of Photographs


Architecture/Decorative Art

Peter Shire: Chairs

Julius Shulman:
Desert Modern

Hollyock House and
Olive Hill:
Frank Lloyd Wright and
Edmund Teske


History and Culture

E. O. Hoppé:
The Indian Subcontinent
on the Cusp of Change

The Black & White Fifties:
South Africa Photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg

number of works:
100 photographs; 15–20 architectural renderings;
3 large mounted blow-ups;
20-minute DVD

frame sizes:
11 x 14 to 40 x 60 inches

space requirements:
appx 450 linear feet

tour dates:
Summer 2008 through 2011

participation fee:
$13,500 for 8 weeks

support materials:
Publication, Julius Shulman/Palm Springs, Rizzoli 2008. Text by Michael Stern and Alan Hess; preface by Steven Nash, Ph.D.; foreword by Julius Shulman.

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Julius Shulman: Desert Modern

This exhibition is organized by Palm Springs Art Museum
and curated by Michael Stern


No individual has been a more comprehensive visual narrator of the evolution of modern architecture in Southern California than photographer Julius Shulman. Masterful in his sensitivity to light, form and detail, Shulman captured the essential elements of the buildings he was photographing with beauty and insight. His dazzling photographic work turned buildings into icons, chronicling the rise and fall of aesthetic styles and their historical context.

Julius Shulman: Desert Modern focuses on Shulman’s encyclopedic documentation of the modern architectural movement in the Southern California, especially in the Palm Springs area of California where noted architects integrated the desert landscape into their designs.

Home to movie stars and celebrities (featured projects include E. Stewart Williams’ Frank Sinatra House, and Paul Williams’ Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz House), the Palm Springs area contains some of California’s finest Modern buildings including Richard Neutra’s masterpiece, the Kaufmann House.

The exhibition consists of approximately 100 photographs, in both color and black and white, of buildings by architects such as Richard Neutra, John Lautner, A. Quincy Jones, Paul Williams, E. Stewart Williams, Albert Frey, William Cody, Donald Wexler, and Palmer & Krisel. Also included are several original architectural renderings, as well as biographical and historical data about the architects that will begin each section of the exhibition. Enlarged facsimile prints of vintage magazine articles about the modern buildings photographed by Shulman accompany bound volumes of articles and images that showcased the Modernist style.

The exhibition marks the seventieth anniversary of Shulman’s first photographic assignment in the desert, that of Richard Neutra’s Grace Miller House, in 1938. The majority of the images in the exhibition have never been previously shown.


Image:

Raymond Loewy House, architecture by Albert Frey and Raymond Loewy, 1947. Courtesy of the artist.

 

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