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2 unusual facts about Beaumont Newhall


Beaumont Newhall

Newhall continued his graduate studies at the Institute of Art and Archaeology of the University of Paris, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

While at Harvard, Newhall was greatly influenced by his instructor Paul J. Sachs.


The West Coast Photographic Movement

Notable artists and photographers included: Dody Weston Thompson, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Charis Wilson (second wife of Edward Weston and the famous model of his nude photographic work), Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Wynn Bullock, Don Ross, Ruth Bernhard, Willard Van Dyke, Nata Piaskowski, Beaumont Newhall and Nancy Newhall, and artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Morris Graves and Jean Charlot and his wife Zohmah Charlot.

Van Deren Coke

In 1970—during Beaumont Newhall's final year—he served as Deputy Director and from 1971 to 1972 as Director of George Eastman House.


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