Tomales Bay
Catalogue
- Year
- 1937
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 14.7 × 23 cm (5 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Mount: 35.2 × 43.2 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Willard Van Dyke
Artist
Photography
Willard Van Dyke was an American photographer and filmmaker active from the 1930s through the 1980s. Working primarily in black and white photography and documentary film, he developed a direct, socially engaged visual practice rooted in West Coast modernism and the Farm Security Administration tradition. His work combined formal clarity with an acute attention to labor, landscape, and everyday American life in the postwar period. Van Dyke also mentored emerging photographers and remained a significant figure in twentieth-century documentary practice.
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- Willard Van Dyke
- Year
- 1937
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 14.7 × 23 cm (5 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Mount: 35.2 × 43.2 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1937-104314
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified