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Mathew B. Brady

Mathew B. Brady

Artist

WA-00049880

Printmaking

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None documented

21

Institutional Exhibitions

10

Works in Collection

55

Assets Indexed

1

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Publications Referenced

60%

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984–1985

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Portrait Photographs

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969

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Photographs Before Surrealism

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

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Edward Steichen Photography Center

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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The Photographer's Eye

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

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Photographs from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

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70 Photographers Look at New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957–1958

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The Family of Man

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1955

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Then and Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1952

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12 Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1951

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Abstraction in Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1951

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About

Why this artist matters now

Mathew B. Brady was an American photographer whose documentation of the American Civil War and frontier landscape established photography as a primary historical record. Operating from his studio in Lake George, New York, Brady created thousands of photographic plates using the collodion wet plate process, capturing portraits of political figures and scenes of battlefield aftermath with unprecedented scale and clarity. His work, exhibited at MoMA, fundamentally shaped the role of the camera as witness to national events and established the authority of the photographic image in American visual culture.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 40% · Updated 10d ago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (10)

Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington, D.C., June

Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington, D.C., June

1866 · albumen print

image/sheet: 24.3 × 34.6 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.) mount: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

National Gallery of Art

General W.S. Hancock and Staff

General W.S. Hancock and Staff

1864 · albumen print

image/sheet: 10.5 × 14.4 cm (4 1/8 × 5 11/16 in.) mount: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

National Gallery of Art

George Inness

1864 · albumen print (carte-de-visite)

image/sheet: 8.7 × 5.6 cm (3 7/16 × 2 3/16 in.) mount: 10.2 × 6.2 cm (4 × 2 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Fairfax Court House, Virginia, with Union Soldiers in Front and on the Roof

Fairfax Court House, Virginia, with Union Soldiers in Front and on the Roof

1863 · Albumen print

24.2 × 38.1 cm (9 1/2 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)

Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)

1862 · Daguerreotype

10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Open case: 12.1 × 19.2 × 1.2 cm (4 13/16 × 7 9/16 × 1/2 in.); Case: 12.1 × 9.6 × 2.3 cm (4 13/16 × 3 13/16 × 15/16 in.); Each plate: 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls)

Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls)

1861 · Daguerreotype

12.2 × 10.7 cm (4 13/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Open case: 13.4 × 24 × 1.3 cm (5 5/16 × 9 1/2 × 9/16 in.); Case: 13.4 × 12 × 2.2 cm (5 5/16 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in.); Plate: 8.3 × 10.8 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff

1861 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 26.4 × 37 cm (10 7/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 42.9 cm (13 1/2 × 16 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Colonel John T. Croxton

Colonel John T. Croxton

1856 · salted paper print

image: 20.7 × 14.2 cm (8 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.) mount: 21.8 × 15.9 cm (8 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Untitled (Portrait of Man)

Untitled (Portrait of Man)

1846 · Daguerreotype

8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in.); Open case: 9.3 × 16 × 1 cm (3 11/16 × 6 5/16 × 7/16 in.); Case: 9.3 × 8 × 1.7 cm (3 11/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.); Plate: 8.3 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Portrait of a Child)

Untitled (Portrait of a Child)

1839 · Daguerreotype

Plate: 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Case: 11.8 × 9.2 × 1.5 cm (4 11/16 × 3 5/8 × 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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10 published of 11 catalogued · 11 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Artsy artwork: Portrait of a Man (1880)

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Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum National Gallery of Art

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

In collection

National Gallery of Art