Thomas F. Barrow (b. 1938)
Untitled, From the series, Cancellations, 1975
Vintage gelatin silver print, printed 1977
Signed & dated in ink in the margin
Image size: 9 x 13 3/8 inches
Paper size: 11 x 14 inches
Mat size: 14 x 17 inches
Condition: Two extremely slight handling marks in lower left
and in lower right, barely visible and only visible in raking light; otherwise
in excellent condition
Retail: $4500-6000
BIO:
Thomas Barrow, who was born in Kansas City, Missouri, studied with Aaron Siskind at the Art Institute of Design, Chicago, and graduated with an M.A. in graphic design in 1967. He also studied film with Jack Ellis at Northwestern University. At the George Eastman House, he was Curator of Exhibitions in 1965, Assistant Director from 1971-1972, and became editor of Image in 1972. The Associate Director of the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, from 1973-1976, Barrow began teaching photography in the Art Department in 1976 and was Acting Director of the University Art Museum in 1985. He has received two NEA Photographers Fellowships (1973; 1978) and is also a publication designer.
Selected Bibliography
Grundberg, Andy and Gauss, Kathleen McCarthy. Inventions and Transformations-The Photographs of Thomas Barrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Coleman, A.D. Light Readings. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
The Extended Document. Rochester, New York: International
Center of Photography, George Eastman House, 1975.
Selected Exhibitions
2010-2011 A Restless
Mind, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2008 New
Acquisitions, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque NM; Recent
Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Photography: New Mexico, UNM Art
Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Attention to
Detail: 12 Artists, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM; Driven to Distraction, The
Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA; Recent Acquisitions, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Recent
Acquisitions, University of Maryland Baltimore County, A.O. Kuhn Gallery,
Baltimore, MD; Rebels and Revelers: Experimental Decades, 1970’s- 1980’s,
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2006 FOLLY, AIA
Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
2005 Wide Gamut:
Alternative Process Photography, Donkey Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; In the Center
of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson,
AZ; Ditto: Multiples From the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Columbia College Chicago, IL
2003 Current,
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Global Village: The ‘60s, Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; The Discerning Eye: Southern California
Collects, MOPA, San Diego, CA; The Stacked Deck, Tamarind Institute Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
2002 POLAROID, The
New Mexico Connection, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Snapshots, Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Taken by Design: Photographs from
the Institute of Design, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Photographs
from the Peter Bunnell Collection, Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Idea
Photographic: After Modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Thomas Barrow:
Then and Now, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Passages: Touring NM Art with a Detour Along Route 66,
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Drawn from Photography, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; A Change of View, New Prints from 2001,
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2000 Blue Skies,
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1997 Photo + Object:
Thomas Barrow, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1996 Pink Stuff
& Pink Dualities, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
l992 Notes for the
90's, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Studio Notes by Thomas Barrow,
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1990 Thomas Barrow, The Burning Houses, Amarillo
Art Center1986-87; Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA; Light
Gallery, New York City
1979 Light Gallery,
New York City
1976 Light Gallery,
New York City
1975 Deja Vu
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1974 Light Gallery,
New York City
1972 Light Gallery, New York City
Selected Public
Collections
National Gallery of Canada
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts
Pasadena Art Museum
Ryerson Polytechnic Institute
University of New Mexico
Lincoln Rochester Trust Company
Fogg Art Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
University of Kansas Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Art
Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities Collection
Reva & David Logan Foundation
Princeton University Library, The Graphic Arts Collection
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
The New Orleans Museum of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Denver Art Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Australia
Washington Art Consortium (Whatcom Museum of History and
Art)
The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,
Tucson
California State University, Long Beach
De Cordova Museum
University of California, Riverside
Ohio Wesleyan University
Princeton Art Museum
Polaroid International Collection Art Museum
The Albuquerque Museum
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,
Chicago
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
University of Louisville Photographic Archive
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Madison Art Center
The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art (KMOPA), Japan
Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA
Capitol Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM