September 14 - December 29, 2019
“The first exhibition chronicling the formative beginnings of Gordon Parks’s extensive career opens at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art September 14, on view through December 29, 2019. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation, this exhibition highlights Parks’s mastery of the camera to create an uplifting vision of African-American life at the mid-20th century. Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 will be the inaugural exhibition in the museum’s newly renovated galleries, which includes expanded space dedicated to special exhibitions.”
From left to right:
American Gothic, Washington, D.C., 1942
Untitled, 1941
Paris Fashions, 1949
Credit: Photograph by Gordon Parks.
Copyright: Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
On View: September 14, 2019 | 9 am – 5 pm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, 76107 TX
(817) 738-1933
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