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Biography |
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1927 |
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MA, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Landscape Architecture |
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1974 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship |
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1979 |
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Honorary PhD from the University of Arizona |
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1982 |
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Friends of Photography Distinguished Career Award |
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1985 |
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Arizona State University’s College of Fine Arts Award |
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1985 |
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Artist of the Year by the University of Bridgeport, Conn. |
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1987 |
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Arizona Governor’s Arts Award |
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Exhibitions |
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Solo exhibitions |
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1937 Howard Putzel Gallery |
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1946 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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1949 Charles Egan Gallery |
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1963 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1965 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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1967 Museum of Northern Arizona |
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1968 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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1972 Light Gallery, New York, NY |
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1973 Light Gallery, New York, NY |
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1977 Light Gallery, New York, NY |
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1979 Light Gallery, New York, NY |
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1979 Art Museum at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
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1980 Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, CA (traveling) |
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1980 Delaware Art Museum, DE |
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1981 Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
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1985 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
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1986 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1988 University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI |
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1992 Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1992 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1992 Photo Gallery International |
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1994 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ |
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1994 The Art Museum at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
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1994 J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA |
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1994 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1995 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA |
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1996 Pace/MacGill Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1997 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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1999 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
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1999 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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2000 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, France |
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2002 Yavapai Community College, Prescott, AZ |
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2004 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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2005 Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
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2005 J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA |
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2005 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art |
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2005 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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2005 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY |
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2005 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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2005 Terry Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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2005 Snite Museum at Notre Dame |
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Selected group exhibitions |
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1941 Images of Freedom, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1946 New Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1948 In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today’s Photography, |
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1948 Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1949 Realism in Photography, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1952 Diogenes with a Camera I, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1957 Drawings, Paintings and Photographs, Institute of Design, Chicago, IL |
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1959 Photography in the Fine Arts: An Exhibition of Great Contemporary Photographs, |
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1959 Institute of Design, Chicago, IL |
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1965 Photography in America 1850-1965, Yale University Art Gallery, CT |
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1971 Thirteen Photographers, Light Gallery, NY |
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1972 Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Boston, MA |
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1974 Photography in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1975 From the Center for Creative Photography, Center for Creative Photography, |
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1975 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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1975 Picture Puzzles, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1977 Arizona: Ansel Adams and Frederick Sommer, Arizona Bank Galleria, Phoenix, AZ |
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1978 Photographs from the Sam Wagstaff Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (traveling) |
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1980 Light Abstractions, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MI (traveling) |
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1983 Two Men, Two Visions, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1988 Where Images Come From, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (traveling) |
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1990 Elective Affinities, George Eastman House |
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1995 Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan |
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1995 Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
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1998 Photography at Princeton, Princeton University, NJ |
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2005 Consent to Gravity, RISD, Providence, RI |
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Literature |
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The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, Keith Davis (published by FFSF and distributed by Yale University Press, 2005) |
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Frederick Sommer: Selected Texts and Bibliography,Sheryl Conkelton (Oxford: Clio Press, 1995) |
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Words/Images, Frederick Sommer (Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1984) |
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Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five,A Retrospective, Constance W. Glenn and Jane K. Bledsoe, Introduction by Leland Rice (Long Beach: The Art Museum and Galleries, CSU, 1980) |
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Venus, Jupiter and Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, Barbara Wendel, Charles Metzger and Ed Mitchell (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980) |
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Frederick Sommer, Gerald Nordland (Philadelphia: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968) |
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“Emmet Gowin on Frederick Sommer” contained within the Books on Photography III(1999) sales catalog by Roth Horowitz Booksellers |
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“Death Imagery in the Work of Four Twentieth-Century Artists: Kathe Kollwitz, Mauricio Lasansky, Frederick Sommer and Jerome Liebling,” by Susan Von Glahn, Master of Fine Arts thesis paper (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1985) |
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“Frederick Sommer: Photographic and Philosophical Development,” by Mary Ann Fittipaldi, Master of Arts thesis paper (East Texas State University, 1981) |
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Creative Camera No. 204, Articles by Mark Haworth-Booth and Dawn Ades |
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Philadelphia Photo Review, Vol. 5 No.1 Spring/Summer 1980, Article by Stephen Perloff |
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Linguistic & Pictorial Logic of General Aesthetics: A Discussion of the Ornamental Sense of Ideas (A transcription of the Princeton seminars, taught by Frederick Sommer |
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