Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in:
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| Country |
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| USA | 48 |
| United Kingdom | 3 |
| Germany | 2 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
8 |
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Etherton Gallery, USA |
4 |
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Pace / Macgill Gallery, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
7.9.1905 Born in Angri, SA (IT)
10.4.1999 Died in Los Angeles, CA (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 57 
Solo shows 18
2011
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| Choice and Chance - Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Circumnavigation - Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Frederick Sommer - Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England) |
2005
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| Frederick Sommer at 100 - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Frederick Sommer – A Centennial Celebration - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| The Photographs of Frederick Sommer - A Centennial Tribute - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Frederick Sommer’s Photographs and Musical Scores - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
1999
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| A Tribute to Frederick Sommer, 1905-1999 - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
1990
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| Frederick Sommer: Master Photographer - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
1989
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| Where Images Come From: Drawings and Photographs by Frederick Sommer - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1981
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| Frederick Sommer At Seventy-Five: A Retrospective - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Frederick Sommer at 75 - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
1980
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| Frederick Sommer at seventy-five - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Frederick Sommer at seventy-five - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
1969
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| Frederick Sommer: Photographs - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1963
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| Photographs by Frederick Sommer - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1937
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| Frederick Sommer: Abstractions, Watercolor and Gouache - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 39
2013
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| The Unphotographable - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2012
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| The Vivisector - Sprüth Magers London, London (England) |
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Emmet Gowin and His Contemporaries - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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| Gun - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Group Exhibition"1955" - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2011
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| Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Eye/object: Photographs From the Collection of Jonathan Williams - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Masters of American Photography - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2010
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| Creative Continuum - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Where in the World? - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In Focus: Photography from the Mills College Art Museum Colle - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
2009
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| The Private Collection of Fern M. Schad - Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Faces - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Works on Paper - Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England) |
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| At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
2008
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| Die Hände der Kunst - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
2007
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| In Focus - The Nude - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Hot + Bothered: Looking at the Landscape - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Visionary Anatomies - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
2006
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| 25th Anniversary Summer Celebration - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
2005
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| nützlich – süß – museal. Das fotografierte Tier - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| The Terrain of Seeing - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
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| The Art of Summer: Etherton Selections - Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
1999
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| Coming to Life - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Transmutations - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
1996
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| Desert - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
1994
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| American Surrealist Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1980
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| Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1973
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| Collage and the Photo Image - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1969
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| Portrait Photographs - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1962
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| Images from the Stone - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1960
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| The Sense of Abstraction - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1952
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| Diogenes with a Camera - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1951
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| Abstraction in Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1950
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| Photographs by 51 Photographers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1946
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| New Photographers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 5 |
United Kingdom
| | Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England)
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USA
| | Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
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| | Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 9

USA
| | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
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| | University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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