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Laura Gilpin White Iris, 1926 ©1979 Amon Carter Museum
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 Laura Gilpin Masterworks
Byers-Evans House Gallery - Admission is free
November 7 - December 31, 2008
This comprehensive exhibition of photographs by legendary Colorado photographer Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), consists of over 40 platinum and silver prints spanning Gilpin’s six decades as an artist in the American Southwest. Images from all periods of her career will be on display, including rare examples of her pictorial period and her exemplary documentation of the Navajo during the depression years and later, a demographic overlooked by the WPA photographers of the time.
Curated by Paul and Teresa Harbaugh with images brought together from the Native American Trading Company, Denver; the Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe; The Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs; and from the Evans family collection.
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Laura Gilpin, Sunburst, the Castillo, Chichén Itzá, 1932
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