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Grant Wood Sketching in the Iowa Countryside, c.1920

11 x 14 inch silver print on paper by Marvin Cone

From the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Study Collection

Grant Wood is known best for producing one of the icons of American art - American Gothic.  It is a tribute to art and architecture. There are, of course, many other icons in art, architecture and photography. This sample of some of the photographic icons found on the WWW is offered as a lagniappe - a little bit extra. Enjoy.

Adams, Ansel (1902-1984)

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (1942)

Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite, 1927

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941)

"Old Faithful” Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (1930s)

The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942)    

American Experience, PBS. “Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film.” ©1999-2002 PBS Online.  Accessed 6 May 2003.  Available: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/ 

National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. "The Collection: Ansel Adams." ©2003. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=237750

Paludan, Eve. “Ansel Adams: U.S. DOI [Department of Interior] Photographs, 1933-1942.” ©1998 Eve Paludan.  Accessed 6 May 2003. No longer available.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “Ansel Adams at 100.” Accessed 6 May 2003.  Available: http://www.sfmoma.org/adams/?id=16 

University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography. “UCR/CMP Ansel Adams/Fiat Lux Database.” ©2001 The Regents of the University of California. Accessed 6 May 2003.  Available: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/mainFrame/collections/guides/adams/default.html 

Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)

You Have Seen Their Faces (1937; book illustrations for Erskine Caldwell)

Living Dead of Buchenwald (1945; book)

Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel (1946)

Cox, Patrick. "Margaret Bourke-White: History Making Photojournalist and Social Activist." From The Digital Journalist (January 2003). ©The Digital Journalist. Available: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0301/pcox.html

Lakewood Public Library (OH). "Women in History: Margaret Bourke-White." Available: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bour-mar.htm

PhotoSeminars.com. "Hall of Fame: Margaret Bourke-White: 1904-1971."  Available: http://photo-seminars.com/Fame/MargaretWhite.htm

Stamberg, Susan. "Bourke-White's Photography of Design." National Public Radio (NPR). Available: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1175402

Brady, Mathew (1823/24-1896)

John James Audubon (1850)

General Ulysses S. Grant (June 1864)

President Abraham Lincoln (January 1864)

General Robert E. Lee (April 1865)

Library of Congress, American Memory Collection. "Selected Civil War Photographs." ©January 2000 Library of Congress. Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour."  ©1997 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/gallery.html

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "Mathew Brady's Portraits." ©1997 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/

Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-)

Behind Saint-Lazare Station, Paris, France, 1932

John Huston (1946)

Truman Capote (1947)

Leningrad, USSR, 1973

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. "Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson." Available: http://www.henricartierbresson.org/index_en.htm

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. " Tete-a-Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson: October 29, 1999-January 9,2000." ©2000 Smithsonian Institution. Available: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/cb/index.htm

Washington Post. "Tete-a-Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson: The National Portait Gallery Exhibition: October 29, 1999-January 9,2000." Available: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/museums/photogallery/bresson/

Evans, Walker (1903-1975)

Couple at Coney Island, New York (1928)

Lunchroom Window, New York (1929)

Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (1936)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941; book with James Agee)

Getty Art Museum. "Walker Evans: Before + After." ©2001 JPGT. Available: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/evans/

Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Special Exhibitions: Walker Evans: February 1-May 14, 2000." ©2000-2003 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Available: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={26B7F4BD-AE17-11D3-936C-00902786BF44}

National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. "The Collection: Walker Evans." ©2003 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&Hname=evans&Person=243750

PBS Online. "I Hear America Singing: Walker Evans." Available: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/evans.html

Karsh, Yousuf (1908-2002)

Winston Churchill (1941)

Albert Einstein (1948)

Ernest Hemingway (1957)

George Eastman House, Still Photographs Archive. "Yousuf Karsh: 59 Selected Images." ©2002 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. Available: http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi3/karsh_sum00001.html

National Library of Canada. "Yousuf Karsh: A Selective Bibliography." Compiled by Dale Blake (Aug. 2002). ©National Library of Canada. Available: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/yousuf-karsh/index-e.html

Weston Gallery. "Artist: Yousuf Karsh." ©Weston Gallery, Carmel,CA. Available: http://www.westongallery.com/artists/y_karsh/yousuf_karsh.html

Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965)

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco (1933)

Migrant Mother (1936)

Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas (1938)

Interrupted Lives (1942)

Library of Congress, American Memory Project, Documenting America. "Migrant Workers: Photographer: Dorothea Lange: Imperial Valley, California, February and March 1937, Resettlement Administration, Lot 345." Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html 

Library of Congress. "Dorothea Lange." In "Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II." ©2002 Library of Congress. Available: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. "Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' : Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview." ©2001 Library of Congress. Available: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

Oakland Museum of California. "Dorothea Lange, Collections: Dorothea Lange Archive." ©2001 Oakland Museum of California. Available: http://www.museumca.org/global/art/collections_dorothea_lange.html

Mapplethorpe, Robert (1945-1989)

Female Torso (1978)

White Vase (1982)

Self-Portrait (1985)

Guggenheim Museum, New York. "The Collection: Robert Mapplethorpe." Available: http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_97A_0.html

Marshall, Richard. "Mapplethorpe's Vision." From Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe (Oct.1992). In Masters of Photography. Available:http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe_articles3.html

"The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation." ©2001 The Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe. Available: http://www.mapplethorpe.org/

Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946)

Winter Sky -- Central Park (1894)

Reflections -- Venice (1894)

The Steerage (1907)

Georgia O' Keefe (1918; 1933)

Get the Picture. "Alfred Stieglitz." Available: http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture/stieglitz/index.html

Leggat, Robert. "Alfred Stieglitz." From A History of Photography. ©Robert Leggat, 1999. Available: http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/stieglit.htm

National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution.  "The Collection: Alfred Stieglitz." ©2003 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=231930

PBS Online. "American Masters: Alfred Stieglitz." Available: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/stieglitz_a.html

Strand, Paul (1890-1976)

Blind Woman (1916)

The White Fence (1916)

Ranchos de Taos (1931)

Aperture. "50 Years: The Art and Power of Photography: Featured Artist: Paul Strand." ©2003 Aperture Foundation. No longer available.

Getty Art Museum. "The Collections: Paul Strand." ©2003 The J. Paul Getty Trust. Available: http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a1899-1.html

National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. "The Collection: Paul Strand." ©2003 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Available: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=244970

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Exhibitions: Paul Strand: June 19-September 15, 1998." ©2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Available: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail/98_exhib_paul_strand.html

Weston, Edward (1886-1958)

 Point Lobos, 1929

Pepper, 1930

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1933

Nude, 1936

Edward-Weston.com. "The Edward Weston/Cole Preston Website." Available: http://www.edward-weston.com/

Huntington Library, Art Collections. "Edward Weston: A Legacy." ©2003, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Available: http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/Westonexhibit.html

Robinson, Thomas. "Edward Weston Bibliography." In Historic Photo Archive.  Available: http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/big/weston.html

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