Artists Unframed

Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

• Condition: Like New
• Type: Hardcover
• Language - English
• 160 Pages
  
• 15.88cm x 1.09cm x 20.96cm (6.25" x .75" x 8.25")
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• 2015
  

Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life.

Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya—a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.