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Edward Albee (1928- )
1981 · gelatin silver print
Image: 27.1 x 26 cm (10 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.); Paper: 35.2 x 27.8 cm (13 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Hans Namuth
German-American, 1915–1990
WA-00016833
Mixed MediaAbstract ExpressionismPhotographyExpressionism
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
6
Assets Indexed
9
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (1)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Picturing "Greatness"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
No image
Artists by Artists
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
No image
Louis I. Kahn: 1901�1974
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
Field Verification (6 fields)
3 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- NationalityDuplicate Merge + Wikidata· 85%✓
- Death yearDuplicate Merge + Wikidata· 85%✓
- Birth yearDuplicate Merge + Wikidata· 85%✓
- Primary mediumWikidata· 70%
- BiographyWikidata· 70%
- Profile imageWikidata· 70%
Source Registry (1)
- WikidataTier 1 · Institutional40%
About
Why this artist matters now
Hans Namuth was a German-born photographer and filmmaker whose work documented abstract expressionism and its key practitioners during the mid-twentieth century. His photographs of Jackson Pollock at work, captured in his studio between 1950 and 1951, became iconic documents of artistic process and remain among the most recognizable images of postwar American art. Namuth also produced films and worked across photography, printmaking, and mixed media, maintaining a practice rooted in the direct observation of artistic creation.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago
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Movement
Abstract Expressionism
Medium
Mixed Media
Related Artists
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Canonical record
Artworks (4)
Artwork sources (2)
4 published of 4 catalogued · 0 with image
- Cleveland Museum of Art2 published
- The Met2 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)
2 entries · 1 sources
- 1967 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1981 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Images
Relationships
6Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
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