Barbara Morgan

(American, 1900–1992)

martha graham, "letter to the world" (kick) by barbara morgan

Barbara Morgan

Martha Graham, "Letter to the World" (Kick), 1940

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ekstasis (martha graham torso) by barbara morgan

Barbara Morgan

Ekstasis (Martha Graham Torso), 1935

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martha graham, "el penitente" (erick hawkins solo, "el flagellante") by barbara morgan

Barbara Morgan

Martha Graham, "El Penitente" (Erick Hawkins solo, "El Flagellante"), 1940

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martha graham (lamentation) by barbara morgan

Barbara Morgan

Martha Graham (Lamentation), 1935

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valerie bettis, "the desperate heart" (kick) by barbara morgan

Barbara Morgan

Valerie Bettis, "The Desperate Heart" (Kick), 1944

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Biography

Timeline

1919 - 1923
Studied (major in art ) at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1923 - 1924
Taught art at the San Fernando High School, San Fernando, CA
1925 - 1930
Taught design, landscape, and woodcut at the Art faculty, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1931
Established a studio in New York for painting and lithography, New YorK, NY
1941
Awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Trade Book Clinic Award
1970
Elected Fellow of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1975
Received grant from National Endowment for the Arts
1978
Received honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1988
Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by American Society of Magazine Photographers, Washington, D.C.
1992
Died:

Exhibitions

2008
Barbara Morgan, Rhythmic Vitality - Dances In Silver, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, A (solo)
2005
Martha Graham Dance Photographs by Barbara Morgan, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (solo)
2004
Faces of Modern Dance : Barbara Morgan Photographs, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
1989
'Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Photographs, Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art, iMilwaukee, WI , Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (solo)
1978
RECOLLECTIONS: Ten Women of Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1961
Sherman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1945
Modern American Dance, Museum of Modern Art, NY (solo)
1940
Dance Photographs, Black Mountain College, NC (circulated to over 150 colleges, museums and galleries until 1943)
1934
Mellon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1931
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY