Color Field Painting - Sculpture - African American Art - Figurative Expressionism
Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints - Pattern and Decoration
Photography

The collection contains nearly 1,000 photographs including works by Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Ralston Crawford, Laurie Simmons, Brassai, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Joel Meyerowitz, and the recent donation of examples by Northwest photographers, including Ruth Bernhard and Shedrich Williames. The opportunity to display them is severely limited in the current 264 square feet of the Works on Paper Gallery. The expansion will allow photographs from the collection to be displayed regularly on a rotating basis.

 

Brassai (Gyula Halász, French, 1899-1984)
A Happy Group at Quatre Saisons, Paris, circa 1932, printed later
Gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 ¼ inches
MSU purchase, funded by the Nellie M. Loomis Endowment in memory of Martha Jane Loomis, 2002.51.3

 

Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958
Gelatin silver print, 10 ½ x 13 3/8 inches
MSU purchase, funded in part by Roger Funk, 70.51

 

Ralston Crawford (American, born Canada, 1906-1978)
Ernest Rodgers, circa 1950s
Gelatin silver print, 9 7/8 x 8 1/16 inches
Gift of Robert F. Crawford, 99.5.4

 

Ruth Bernhard (American, born Germany, 1905)
Triangles, 1946
Gelatin silver print, 18 ¾ x 14 7/8 inches
Gift of the artist, 2000.18

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