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The Photograph of the Artist: Portraits from the Permanent Collection

Saturday, November 18, 2000–Sunday, January 28, 2001

Robert Rauschenberg, New York by Alexander Liberman. Image courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York.

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The Albright-Knox’s collection of 20th century works is enriched and enlivened through more than 70 images of artists by leading contemporary photographers. Photographs by Gyula Halasz Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Hans Namuth offered a unique opportunity to peer into the studios and faces of a spectrum of the past century's artistic masters. Visitors came face to face with artists represented in the museum’s collection such as Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jackson Pollock.

This exhibition was organized by Assistant Curator Claire Schneider.