biografía de Barbara MORGAN (1900-1992)

Lugar de nacimiento: Buffalo, KS

Direcciones: Los Angeles, CA, 1919-30; NYC and Scarsdale, NY

Profesión: Painter, photographer, printmaker, graphic artist

Estudios: Univ. Calif., Los Angeles, 1919-23.

Exposiciones: San Diego FA Gal., 1927; Calif. WCS, LACMA, 1926, 1927-36; Salons of Am., 1934; S. Indp. A., 1936; Nat. Gal. Canada; "Mod. Am. Dance," Inter-Am. Office, Nat. Gal. Art for tour (solo) in Latin Am.; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 1964; Smithsonian Inst., 1970; MoMA, 1972; Amon Carter Mus, 1972; Haggerty Mus. of A., Marquette Univ., Wisconsin (retro.); "Concerning Expressionism: American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde," Hollis Taggart Gals, NYC, 1998

Asociaciones: Cailf. WCS

Obra: MoMA; IMP/GEH; NMAA; Amon Carter Mus, Fort Worth, TX.

Comentarios: Best known for her photographs of dancers such as Martha Graham, JosÈ Limón, and Merce Cunningham which focus on rhythm, motion, and form. During the 1920s and 1930s she created expressionistic paintings and woodcuts that demonstrate an affinity with German Expressionism. She became a professional photographer in 1935. Teaching: UCLA, 1925-30; Ansel Adams Workshop, Yosemite, summers. Auth.: Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs (1941); Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp (1951).

Fuentes: WW73; Barbara Morgan (monograph, 1972) Hughes, Artists of California, 388; Witkin & London, 196; Concerning Expressionism, 90-97, 110.