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National Gallery of Art acquires iconic Gordon Parks self-portrait

By Chadd ScottDecember 20, 20210 Comments

Gordon Parks, Self-Portrait, 1941, gelatin silver print image/sheet: 50.4 x 40.8 cm (19 13/16 x 16 1/16 in.) mount: 70.2 x 55.3 cm (27 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington. Purchased as the Gift of Alan and Marsha Paller, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Raj and Indra Nooyi, Mitchell P. Rales, David M. Rubenstein, and Darren Walker in honor of Sharon Percy Rockefeller 2021.61.1

The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of Gordon Parks’s (1912–2006) earliest and most important pictures, Self-Portrait (1941). One of two known existing vintage prints of…

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Gordon Parks photography at Howard Greenberg Gallery NYC

By Chadd ScottOctober 25, 20210 Comments

Gordon Parks, Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, 1957 © The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Howard Greenberg Gallery will present the photography exhibition “Gordon Parks: A Choice of Weapons” through December 23 in the new gallery on the 8th floor of the…

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