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Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz

American, 1945

WA-00026073

Newport Beach, CA, USA

PhotographyConceptual ArtPhotographyContemporary

Representation

None documented

5

Institutional Exhibitions

84

Works in Collection

123

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ353266 ULAN500011333

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Views over America

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

No image

Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

No image

Rooms

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976–1977

No image

Photography for Collectors

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

No image

Photography: Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1973

Field Verification (4 fields)

4 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/lewis-baltz
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/lewis-baltz
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/318
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Lewis Baltz was an American photographer known for his systematic documentation of industrial and suburban landscapes in the American West. Working primarily in black and white, his deadpan visual approach recorded factories, vacant lots, and architectural fragments with forensic precision, eschewing narrative or sentiment. His work emerged alongside conceptual art movements of the 1970s and became foundational to the New Topographics aesthetic. Baltz's practice engaged photography as a mode of social inquiry into postwar development, sprawl, and the built environment's role in shaping contemporary experience.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (84)

Piazza Pugliesi, from the series "Italian Night Color Work"

Piazza Pugliesi, from the series "Italian Night Color Work"

1991 · Silver dye-bleach print

243.9 × 127 cm (96 × 50 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Piazza Sigmund Freud

Piazza Sigmund Freud

1989 · Silver dye-bleach print

Image/paper, approx./sight: 49.7 × 57.7 cm (19 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.); frame: 56.8 × 74.3 × 3.8 cm (22 3/8 × 29 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Piazza Sigmund Freud

Piazza Sigmund Freud

1989 · Silver dye-bleach print

Image/paper, approx./sight: 49.7 × 57.7 cm (19 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.); frame: 56.9 × 74.3 × 3.9 cm (22 3/8 × 29 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Piazza Sigmund Freud

Piazza Sigmund Freud

1989 · Silver dye-bleach print

Image/paper, approx./sight: 49.7 × 57.7 cm (19 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.); frame: 56.8 × 74.3 × 3.8 cm (22 3/8 × 29 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Piazza Sigmund Freud

Piazza Sigmund Freud

1989 · Silver dye-bleach prints (3)

Each image/paper, approx./sight: 49.7 × 57.7 cm (19 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.); 56.8 × 74.3 × 3.8 cm (22 3/8 × 29 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.); each frame: 56.9 × 74.3 × 3.9 cm (22 3/8 × 29 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 22.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.1 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 22.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 23 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: H.: 25.4 cm (10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 22.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 22.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: H.: 20.3 cm (8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.7 × 22.9 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.1 × 25.4 cm (7 15/16 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "San Quentin Point" (1985)

Image: 18.8 × 22.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

84 published of 120 catalogued · 44 with image

Art Institute Chicago
41 published41 img
MoMA
36 publishedof 72 catalogued
Tate
3 published3 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published
Whitney
2 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

San Quentin Point
1982 · Tate · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Santa Cruz (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Santa Cruz (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

10

Movements3

Conceptual Art Photography Contemporary

Collections7

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Market

Auction sale history

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