The Smithsonian American Art Museum Photograph Archives is pleased to
announce a new digital resource, Photographic Portraits of American Artists
from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection. Created by the fine art
photography firm Peter A. Juley & Son (active 1896-1975), this unique group
of 4,700 photographs records a broad range of artists working in the United
States during the first three quarters of the twentieth century. Highlights
of the collection include portraits of Thomas Hart Benton, Selma Burke,
Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob
Lawrence, Barnett Newman, Diego Rivera and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Many of
the images show artists in their studios or at home with their families and
offer interesting glimpses into the artistic and social climate in which
they worked. The collection also contains hundreds of group photographs
documenting activities at the National Academy of Design and Art Students
League in New York City as well as the summer art colonies at Provincetown,
Old Lyme, Woodstock, and Ogunquit. This photographic resource, now fully
digitized, is available to researchers online through the Smithsonian
Institution Research Information System (SIRIS):
http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/julquickstart.htm.
For additional information about the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection,
please contact Andrew Thomas in the Photograph Archives at [log in to unmask] or
(202) 275-1931.
Andrew L. Thomas
Image Collections Coordinator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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