2.5 thousand photos of Charles Schiller and Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, 500 photos, paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and other American artists - all of this went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from the collector Sondra Lane

Sondra Lane
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts has received a royal gift from the collector Sondra B. Lane (Saundra B. Lane), who along with her now deceased husband, William Lane for many years supported the museum. Collection Lane is one of the richest collections of American art of the twentieth century in the world. Boston Museum has received 6000 photos, 100 drawings and 25 paintings.

a gift to Boston has passed the largest private collection of photographs by Edward Weston (Edward Weston) - 2500 images, the same photographs by Charles Schiller (Charles Sheeler ), the richest private collection of works by Ansel Adams - 500 shots. Foundation for photos of the museum thus increased from 9 to 15 thousand shots.

with them Sondra Lane donated to the museum paintings and graphic works by American artists Arthur Dove (Arthur G. Dove), Georgia on 'Keefe (Georgia O'Keeffe), Stuart Davis (Stuart Davis), John Marina (John Marin), Franz Kline (Franz Kline), and others. The exact cost of meeting Sondra Lane can hardly be called - is so valuable a work, but we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.

passed in the museum collection of works by one of the founders of American modernism and the master of photography, Charles Schiller (1883 -1965), includes his famous photographic series - inspired by Cubism series "House Doylstaune" (1916-1917), photographs of Ford plant in River Rouge (1927), the types of French Chartres Cathedral (1929), as well as a series of photos of industrial sites that are created for Fortune magazine in 1939.

works of Edward Weston (1886-1958) called the quintessential American art of photography is at the time of their creation. Among the 2500 images are portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes and surreal works.

Among the 500 photographs Ansel Adams (1902-1984) from the collection of Sondra Lane - Early prints of landscapes Sierra Nevada Mountains, Canadian Rockies, the American Southwest and National Parks.

Many photographs from the collection Lane has repeatedly participated in the exhibitions of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, some of these projects traveled in America and abroad, and many photographs were published a museum.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru