Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941
Temporary Exhibition
Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941
March 29, 2023–July 30, 2023
Edward Weston, Nude (Charis) Floating, 1939. Gelatin silver print. © 2022 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, 2019.48.323
Freidenrich Family Gallery
This exhibition features the 1930s work of five artists in the Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection: Ansel Adams, John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, Wright Morris, and Edward Weston. Displayed among a diverse selection of photographs by their contemporaries, this material illuminates how American artists used photography to spark the imagination.
This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center. We gratefully acknowledge support from The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection Fund and the Kazak Acquisitions and Exhibitions Fund.
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The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive in the heart of the arts district on the Stanford campus. The Cantor faces the Bing Concert Hall across Palm Drive, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad.
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