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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Amsterdam s Canal - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Amsterdam's Canal is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.  Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical m...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver - Vintage Photo - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, the lead cast of "Working Girl". Good condition.
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1980s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time 1959 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collec...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Madonna by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Madonna by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie sta...
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2010s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

War - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.
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1960s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Nude
By Gyula Pap
Located in Denton, TX
Bauhaus I Portfolio Ed. 33/70 Signed and artist stamp.
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20th Century Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude
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Equestrian Silhouettes by Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Equestrian Silhouettes by Alain Le Garsmeur Silhouette of horses in the evening on a horse farm in Bluegrass Country, Lexington, Kentucky, USA 1984. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x...
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1980s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

West Of The Day By Justin Pumfrey
Located in London, GB
West Of The Day By Justin Pumfrey Archival pigment print Paper size: 40x30" 101 x 76 cm edition of 10 unframed note other print sizes and framing options are available, please e...
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2010s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Terry O Neill Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips 1971 Silver gelatin print 24 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legen...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Adriatic Riviera
Located in London, GB
Adriatic Riviera Men and women - wearing red, white and blue striped tops - relaxing on a small boat, with a red and white mast, and small flags of Germany, USA, Great Britain and I...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Eagle Club
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969 Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 30" inches / ca 101.6 x 76.2 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped C...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Monaco Grand Prix Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Monaco Grand Prix 1977 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition British racing driver James Hunt (1947 – 1993) on the grid at the Monaco Grand...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Brighton, Street Photographer, United Kingdom 1956
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph, taken in Brighton in 1952, depicts a street photographer labeled "Official Beach Photographer," standing confidently with his vintage camera on a tri...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Black and White

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas 1972
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

North By North West
Located in London, GB
NORTH BY NORTHWEST, Cary Grant, 1959/ Everett Collection. A beautiful archival pigment print - Large 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm's (paper size) (The Everett Collection ) ...
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1930s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Man Ray
Located in London, GB
Man Ray American surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray (1890 – 1976) with some examples of his work at his Left Bank studio in Paris, April 1956 Gorgeous print measuring 40 x ...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Reg Lancaster Francoise Hardy Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a motorbike. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images) As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we offer premium quality pr...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Quiet Afternoon 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Print- Oversize
Located in London, GB
'Quiet Afternoon' 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Print- Oversize Brigitte Lapp Fonda reclines amidst the foliage in Marbella, circa 1980. (Photo by Slim Aarons) C Print Produced from...
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1980s Modern Photography

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C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. Sunbathing in Capr...
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1980s Modern Photography

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Lambda

C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 – 2003) with a large Great Dane dog, at her Grecian te...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George Fights the Dragon - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Saint George fights the dragon  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticu...
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1920s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Norman Parkinson Terri May for Town Country magazine, 1987
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Terri May for Town & Country magazine, 1987 Terri May for Town & Country magazine, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso with certificate ...
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1970s Modern Photography

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C Print

C. Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, ...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vill...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, 1964 20 x 20" inches...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, 1964 16 x 16" inches...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

"BUTTERFLY HEART" 36x24 Pop Art Archival Print Butterflies Unsigned Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment pop art print of butterflies creating a heart shape created by DESTRO DESTRO is an LA based pop artist. and image creator. Printed on museum grade poster paper....
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

The Florence Baptistery - Vintage B/w Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Florence Baptistery is a b/w photographic print on paper, realized in the early 20th Century. It represents the door of The Church of Florence. Gilberti Lorenzo- Anderson Roma ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Women s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Queen In Concert by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Queen In Concert By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition Freddie Mercury and Queen in concert All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 10...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Bowling - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bowling - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Century. With th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Harry Benson Ali in Training Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30 x 30
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) As an authorized Getty ...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

C. Z. Guest 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. ...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Historical Photo - BenKhedda - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo-BenKhedda is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album including historical mom...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Protest - Historical Photograph About the Feminist Movement - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
The protest - Historical photograph about the feminist movement is an original black and white photograph realized in Rome in 1978 by the Agency of "Ansa" ...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski The apres ski in Vail, Colorado, March 1964 Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152.4 x 101.6 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky - Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972. Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Reg Lancaster Birkin and Gainsbourg Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969. As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Eddie Vedder by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Eddie Vedder Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrif...
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1990s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Old days Photo - Landscape - Vintage Photo - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Landscape is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the late 19th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including...
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Late 18th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Blue Print - Abstract, Black and White, Bauhaus, Modern Art, Woman Artist
Located in Denton, TX
Blue Print by Ida Lansky is an abstract black and white photograph, composing of white lines and geometric shapes against a black background. Approx. 9/5 x 7/5 in. Gelatin Silver Pr...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski The apres ski in Vail, Colorado, March 1964. Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152.4 x 101.6 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 P...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sardinian Holiday 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Sardinian Holiday' Selvaggia Borromeo enjoys a yachting holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, 1967. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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1960s Modern Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Dim Sum Woodcut by Printmaker Tim Engelland
Located in New York, NY
Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012) Dim Sum!, 1991 Woodcut 8 1/2 x 11 in. Signed dated lower right: T. Engelland, '91 Titled lower middle: Dim Sum! Numbered lower left: 73/150 A lifelong artist, Engelland specialized in oil portraits and landscapes, and also worked extensively in woodcuts and linocuts. He was born on Jan. 5, 1950, in Ames, Iowa, the son of Charles Wilbur “Will” Engelland and Patricia Fairman Engelland.. Tim grew up in Terre Haute, IN, attending Fairbanks Elementary School and Indiana State University’s Laboratory School. He knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age, and was mentored by Lab School’s John Laska, graduating in 1968. He received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art; was a Norfolk Fellow at Yale University; and received his MFA from Cornell University, teaching there for two years after graduation. He spent the majority of his career, from 1976-2004, at Deerfield Academy, a prestigious preparatory school in Deerfield, Mass. There he taught art and photography, coached basketball and lacrosse, and served as faculty resident. When the school began accepting female students, Tim designed The Deerfield Girl, a bronze statue to accompany The Deerfield Boy statue standing in the school’s Memorial Building. Along with John O’Brien and Peter Fallon, Tim founded the Deerfield Press, publisher of limited-edition illustrated poems and stories; James Dickey, John McPhee, and Seamus Heaney are among the authors whom the Press published. For several decades, Tim served on the faculty at the Advanced Placement Summer Institute in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and as a consultant to the College Board. He spent sabbaticals in New York City and Boston, and he has exhibited in galleries in those cities and many other venues. His work can be found in the National Library of Ireland, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and in private collections worldwide. In 2004, Tim returned to Indiana. He was married to Susan Karen Carpenter...
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1980s Modern Photography

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Woodcut

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Boucherie A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Norman Parkinson Fashion by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, 1937
Located in New York, NY
Early in Parkinson's fashion career shooting designs by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, August, 1937 Fashion by Dilkusha and Paquin, for Harper’s Bazaar, 1937 Silver gelat...
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1930s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

C. Z. Guest 1955 Palm Beach Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' Palm Beach 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her o...
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1950s Modern Photography

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C Print

Coral Beach 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Coral Beach' A view of Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
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1970s Modern Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Women s Work - Historical Photos -1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Work - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their rig...
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20th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1915.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political eve...
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1910s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

C. Z. Guest Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. ...
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1950s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Rita Hayworth
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph shot by George Hurrell in 1941 and printed at a later date. This image depicts Rita Hayworth, an American actress an...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Barmen
Located in London, GB
Barmen at the Screenwriters’ Club in London. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4586 – Guest Night At The Screenwriters – pub. 1948 (Photo Bert Hardy) A beautiful Limited Edi...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dolores Guinness 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
Located in London, GB
'Dolores Guinness' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. (Photo by Slim Aarons) C Pr...
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1960s Modern Photography

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C Print, Color

Vintage Photo of Painting -Portrait - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting -Portrait is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captu...
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20th Century Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Poolside Pairs Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, Janu...
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1970s Modern Photography

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C Print

Still life with Watermelon, NY
Located in Miami, FL
Phillips de Pury Collection of Alain Dominique Perrin Printed 1985, One from an edition of 21 dye transfer prints Signed Irving Penn Verso Literature: Szarkowki, Irving Penn Irving...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Dye Transfer

Tennis In San Diego California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956. The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
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1950s Modern Photography

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C Print

Into The Storm
Located in East Hampton, NY
Color Photograph Storm / Rain Comes unframed About the Artist: Short Biography in a Nutshell: A fun journey My first foray into the art world was receiving a summer scholarship ...
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2010s Modern Photography

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Mixed Media

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