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Artists›Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

1912

WA-00003636

Fort Scott, KS, USA

Social RealismPhotography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

110

Works in Collection

218

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ365682

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

2 cross-verified · 5 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Unknown· 85%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
BiographyAi Generated + Gallery Generic+1· 82%
NationalityArtsy + Unknown· 85%
Primary mediumUnknown· 20%
Death yearUnknown· 20%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (3)

Jack-Shainmanhttps://www.jackshainman.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/gordon-parks
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/8083
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Movement

Social Realism

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (110)

Bessie Fontenelle with her Son Richard

1968 · gelatin silver print on photographic support

height: 378 cm, width: 508 cm, width: 500 cm, height: 350 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Untitled, Harlem, New York

1967 · gelatin silver print

Image: 16.2 x 24 cm (6 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 x 25.2 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Untitled, Miami, Florida, 1970 (Muhammad Ali with Children)

1965 · gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 x 33.7 cm (9 x 13 1/4 in.); Paper: 23.3 x 34 cm (9 3/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled, Los Angeles, California

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.7 × 33.5 cm (8 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Los Angeles, California

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 33.3 × 22.8 cm (13 1/8 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Muslim Training against Police Dogs, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.9 × 34 cm (9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Malcolm X at Rally, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.2 × 16.7 cm (9 9/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 23.9 × 33.8 cm (9 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.7 × 34 cm (8 15/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 23.1 × 32.7 cm (9 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Muslim Training for Self‐defense, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 23.1 × 33.6 cm (9 1/8 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "Chicago Muslim Story" (1963)

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 33.8 × 26.4 cm (13 5/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Malcolm X Holding up Black Muslim Newspaper, Los Angeles, California

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 34.4 × 23.5 cm (13 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Paper: 26.6 × 35.4 cm (10 1/2 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Black Muslim Rally, Harlem, New York

1963 · Gelatin silver print

9 1/4 × 13" (23.5 × 33 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Harlem Rally, Harlem, New York

1963 · Gelatin silver print

9 3/16 × 13 3/8" (23.3 × 34 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Malcolm X Gives Speech at Rally, Harlem, New York

1963 · Gelatin silver print

13 5/16 × 8 7/8" (33.8 × 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Harlem Rally

1963 · Gelatin silver print

13 3/16 × 19 1/16" (33.5 × 48.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Muslim Rally

1963 · Gelatin silver print

18 15/16 × 13 7/16" (48.1 × 34.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled, Los Angeles, California, 1963 (Malcolm X)

1963 · gelatin silver print

Image: 21.8 x 32.5 cm (8 9/16 x 12 13/16 in.); Paper: 21.8 x 32.7 cm (8 9/16 x 12 7/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Flávio Amuses Smaller Brothers and Sisters, Rio de Janeiro

1961 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (24.8 × 34.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Duke Ellington

1960 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper, sight: 22.5 × 33.4 cm (8 7/8 × 13 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Chicago, Illinois

1957 · Inkjet print

18 × 12 3/16" (45.7 × 31 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Raiding Detectives, Chicago, Illinois

1957 · Inkjet print, printed 2019

11 7/8 × 17 15/16" (30.1 × 45.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1957 · Inkjet print, printed 2019

17 15/16 × 11 7/8" (45.6 × 30.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

110 published of 185 catalogued · 178 with image

MoMA
75 publishedof 150 catalogued150 img
Art Institute Chicago
27 published27 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
5 published
Whitney
2 published
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Bessie Fontenelle with her Son Richard
1968 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Untitled, Miami, Florida, 1970 (Muhammad Ali with Children)
1965 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Red's Younger Brother at Home, Harlem, New York
1948 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Untitled, Harlem, New York
1967 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Untitled, Los Angeles, California, 1963 (Malcolm X)
1963 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
E.C. Rudd, Assistant Manager, Negus Gold Mines, Signaling for a Lift, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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