Barbara Morgan (photographer) - Other Facts in Her Chronology

Other Facts in Her Chronology

  • 1919-23 Student at University of California Los Angeles, majoring in art.
  • 1923-24 Taught art in San Fernando High School, San Fernando, California.
  • 1925-30 Joined art faculty, UCLA. Taught design, landscape, and woodcutting. Published Block Print Book, containing work of woodcut students. Served variously as writer, managing editor, and editor for Dark and Light Magazine, Arthur Wesley Dow Association, UCLA. Painted and photographed in the Southwest with Willard in the summers.
  • 1928 Willard and Barbara’s interest in modern architecture and design led to meeting Richard Neutra and a lifelong friendship resulted. Barbara and Willard photographed construction of Lovell house.
  • 1930 Moved to New York City. Traveled for Willard's Morgan's Leica Lectures. For study, photographed Barnes Foundation art collection, Merion, Pennsylvania.
  • 1931 Established a studio in New York for painting and lithography. Exhibited graphics at Weyhe Gallery, New York, and other galleries.
  • 1932 Son Douglas was born. Continued to exhibit paintings.
  • 1934 One-person painting and graphics exhibition, Mellon Gallery, Philadelphia.
  • 1935 Son Lloyd was born. Saw Martha Graham perform Primitive Mysteries. Began photographing Martha Graham dances.
  • 1935-41 Photographed, exhibited pictures of city themes, dance, children, photomontages and light drawings.
  • 1941 Moved to Scarsdale, New York. Published book, Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs. Awarded American Institute of Graphic Arts Trade Book Clinic Award.
  • 1942-55 Continued photographic projects and exhibitions. Published second book, Summer's Children: A photographic Cycle of Life at Camp. Picture-edited and designed book by Erica Anderson and Eugene Exman, The World of Albert Schweitzer (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1955)
  • 1944 Joined faculty of Art Institute, Black Mountain College, NC
  • 1945 Solo Exhibition, "Modern American Dance", Museum of Modern Art, NY
  • 1959 Art archeological trip to Crete, Greece, Spain, Italy, France and England.
  • 1961 One-person painting and graphics exhibition, Sherman Gallery, New York.
  • 1967 Death of Willard D. Morgan.
  • 1968-88 Prepared major exhibitions and delivered numerous lectures and seminars.
  • 1972 Solo photography show, Museum of Modern Art, NY
  • 1975 Received grant from National Endowment for the Arts.
  • 1977 Created Barbara Morgan Dance Portfolio.
  • 1978 Received honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee.
  • 1978 Included in book and exhibit, "Recollections: Ten Women of Photography," International Center of Photography, New York.
  • 1988 Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by American Society of Magazine Photographers, Washington, D.C

Read more about this topic:  Barbara Morgan (photographer)

Famous quotes containing the word facts:

    “So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)