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Lillian Bassman    (American, 1917)

 Lillian Bassman - More Fashion Mileage per Dress, Barbara Vaughn, New York (Photographs)
Lillian Bassman
More Fashion Mileage per Dress, Barbara Vaughn, New York 1956
 
  

Biography
1917 Born: Brooklyn, NY
1933 Studied at the Textile Highshool in Manhattan
1934 Becomes assistant painter at the WPA
1939 Classes at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
1945 Art Director for Junior Bazaar giving projects to photographers Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, and Paul Himmel
1947 Appointed Art Director’s post at Harper’s Bazaar
1996 Agfa Life Time Achievement Award
1996 Dem Art Directors Club Award
1996 Photographs the Haute Couture collection for New York Times Magazine, German Vogue, and the Autumn Collection for Neiman Marcus, New York

Exhibitions
2005 Galerie f5,6, München
2004 Staley Wise Gallery, New York
2003 Galerie f5.6 in Munich, Germany
2002 Prado Garden, Madrid, Spain
1997 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (solo)
1997 Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 Milan, Italy (solo)
1994 Jane Jackso Gallery in Atlanta (solo)
1994 “Hommage a Lillian Bassman” Caroussel du Louvre, Paris
1993 Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (solo)
1993 Palais du Tokyo in Paris
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