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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Active Nanking. Refugees Leaving the City after the Government Had Fled, 1949. Gift of Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr. Photo courtesy Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University.
The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indian University has received a donation of 116 photographs by 80 artists from Amelia (Lee) Marks and John C. DePrez, Jr.
Ranging in date from 1856 to 2017, the works represent a broad range of subjects by artists that include Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz. Highlights of the gift include Robert Capa's image "The Falling Solider" (1936), one of the most famous war photographs, which captures the devastation of the Spanish Civil War. A Civil War era image by Timothy O’Sullivan is the first such image by the photographer to enter the museum's collection. Berenice Abbott’s "Broadway to the Battery" (1938) is a dynamic bird’s-eye view of southern Manhattan by an important woman artist. With particular strengths in the work of photojournalists and contemporary photographers, the collection complements the museum’s current holdings of more than 22,000 prints, drawings, and photographs.
As Nanette Esseck Brewer, the Eskenazi Museum's Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, noted: "This collection represents the museum's largest single donation of photography, outside of the museum's archives of artists Henry Holmes Smith, Art Sinsabaugh, and Jeffrey A. Wolin, and offers a transformative opportunity to build on our historic strengths and to offer new perspectives. Given the material's global reach and focus on the human condition, I envision the collection benefiting our students in photography and journalism, as well as history, environmental studies, and many other disciplines."
This donation joins three other works by Edward Burtynsky, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Sebastião Salgado that Marks and DePrez have donated to the museum over the years.
Marks, who founded Lee Marks Fine Art in 1981, is a founding member and past president of AIPAD. DePrez is the editor of The Indiana Economic Digest.
The Marks-DePrez Collection highlights a "Year of Photography" at the Eskenazi Museum in which several important projects will be launched, including the exhibitions Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now (now through July 9, 2023) and Measuring Time: The Photographs of Jeffrey A. Wolin (September 7–December 17, 2023). Both projects feature fully illustrated exhibition catalogues.
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