An archive of material related to the career of
groundbreaking American photographer Barbara Crane - from her studio
estate. This group is highlighted by the catalog "Grids"
(Limited to 1000 copies). Also included - an invitation for the
Challenging Vision exhibition opening at Amon Carter Museum, 5 notecards from
Crane's "sticks and stones" series (without envelopes), a brochure /
invitation from the 2010 exhibition at Francoise Pavot Gallery, a bifold
brochure from the Chicago Cultural Center, a studio produced postcard featuring
a selection from the "Monster Series" (1983) and a full copy of
StreetWise Magazine featuring Crane on the cover and an interview.
Details below.
Accompanied by a certificate of provenance from Rare Nest
Gallery Chicago.
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mini-archives of Barbara Crane catalogs and ephemera.
Highlight Title: Title: Barbara Crane:
'Grids' Catalog. Limited to 1000 copies.
Description: 8 x 8 inches, 10 pages, full color
mini-catalog. Fully illustrated with intro by Claire Cass. Staple bound.
Date: 2005
Condition: Pristine - As New
ABOUT BARBARA CRANE (1928, Chicago - 2019, Chicago)
Barbara Crane was a pioneering internationally renowned art
photographer and influential educator who explored photography as a vehicle for
creative expression for over sixty years. A forerunner in experimental and
abstract photography, Crane explored numerous photographic processes throughout
her extensive career. The result was an ongoing evolving body of conceptually
consistent work, varied in approach and experimental in style. An early
investigator of repetition and deconstruction of visual information, she
experimented extensively with sequences, grids, scrolls, and large modular
murals. Crane worked in many formats and materials, ranging from intimate in
size to large scale, utilizing such diverse photographic approaches as
platinum-palladium, Polaroid processes, image transfers, gelatin silver and
digital.
Born in Chicago in 1928, Crane studied at Mills College in
California, completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History at New York
University, and in 1966 received her Master of Science Degree from the
Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She began teaching
photography in 1964 and in 1967 joined the faculty at the prestigious School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, retiring from teaching in 1995 as Professor
Emerita of Photography.
Crane’s photographic work was featured in over ninety solo
exhibitions since 1965 and seven retrospective exhibitions of her work have
been mounted to date. “Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision,” an extensive career
retrospective, was accompanied by a major monograph of the same title. The
exhibition opened at the Chicago Cultural Center in October 2009 and traveled
to the Amon Carter Museum in Texas and the Griffin Museum of Photography in
Massachusetts. Most recently, her work was featured in “Barbara Crane At
Ninety: A Look At Selected Series” at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago.
One of America’s leading photographic artists, Crane's work
is included in numerous national and international public collections including
George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, Art
Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, Bibliotheque
Nationale and FNDC, Paris, France, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece,
and WestLicht Museum of Photography, Vienna, Austria, in addition to private
and corporate collections worldwide.
Crane was the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts
grants in 1974 and 1988, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography
in 1979, and an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award in Photography
in 2001. In 2006 she was honored as a Distinguished Artist by both the Union
League Club of Chicago and Brown University, and was named the first recipient
of the Ruth Horwich Award to a Famous Chicago Artist conferred by the City of
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in 2009. In 2013 she was honored by the
Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and in 2015 received the Silver Camera Award
from the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago. In
April 2016 she received the Professional Achievement Award from the Illinois
Institute of Technology.
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