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Home>Exhibitions>Past>1990>The Art of Paul Strand

# The Art of Paul Strand

December 2 – February 3, 1990East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine, Northeast

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:**150 nature, landscape, portrait, and architectural photographs celebrated the centennial of Paul Strand's birth. 61 photographs in the exhibition came from the Southwestern Bell Foundation, including 6 given to the National Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition and 55 promised as gifts. This exhibition was the first large retrospective of the artist's work since his death in 1976. Films produced by Paul Strand were shown daily in the East Building small auditorium: *Manhattan*, *The Wave*, *The Plow That Broke the Plains*, *The Heart of Spain*, *Native Land*, and It's Up to You.

**Organization:**Sarah Greenough, curator of photography at the National Gallery, was the exhibition curator.

**Sponsor:**Southwestern Bell Foundation supported the exhibition and catalogue.

**Attendance:**  98,751

**Catalog:***Paul Strand: An American Vision*, by Sarah Greenough. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Aperture Foundation, 1990.

**Other Venues:**  Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–July 21, 1991Saint Louis Art Museum, August 11–October 6, 1991Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 10, 1991–January 12, 1992Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 12–May 15, 1992Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, June 14–August 16, 1992Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 16–November 22, 1992

                    - Strand, Paul
                    - American , 1890 - 1976

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