Recent Acquisitions
Cara Romero’s Native Theater
An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Cara Romero is a contemporary artist creating photographs that speak to Native American identity. In a theatrical style, Romero’s photographs explore the history and representation of Native existence, counteracting the inaccurate and offensive portrayals common throughout academia and popular media.
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Recent Acquisitions of Laurie Brown’s Photography
The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery has recently acquired five photographs from Southern California-based photographer Laurie Brown (Scripps College class of ‘59). Brown’s work focuses on the oftentimes jarring division between the rural and the urban, addressing issues from urban sprawl to the impact of industrialization on the natural landscape. She is interested in areas that […]
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Maya Angelou Joins Our Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection
In 2007, Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Mary MacNaughton ’70, artist Alison Saar ’78, and Professor Emerita Susan Rankaitis, created the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection. The collection was formed in honor of Dr. Lewis’ seminal career as an esteemed artist, curator and art historian, visionary museum founder, and celebrated […]
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Baltermants, Trial of a Bourgeois Landowner, Vietnam
In his photograph, “Trial of a Bourgeois Landowner, Vietnam,” Baltermants captures the aura of a temporary court in Communist Vietnam.
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Claes Oldenburg, 1965 by Ken Heyman
Oldenburg appears deceptively serious as he faces the viewer and deadpans into the camera.
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The Highlights of the Collection: Jacques Lowe
With “Walter Kerr during first-night intermission,” Jacques Lowe captures at once Kerr’s unpretentiousness and authoritativeness at the height of his influence in the mid-fifties.
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