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American artist
Rosamond Wolff Purcell (born 1942) is an American photographer.
[1] Purcell is known for her photographic works that explore subjects in
natural history ,
[2] science, and
biology .
[3]
[4]
She was the subject of the 2016 documentary film An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell by Molly Bernstein.
[2]
[5]
[6] Her work is included in the permanent collections of:
Art Institute of Chicago ,
[7] the
National Gallery of Canada .,
[1]
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) ,
[8] the
Philadelphia Museum of Art ,
[9] the
National Academy of Science , and the
Victoria and Albert
[10] in London.
Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside , the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, was presented by the
Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, during September through December 2022.
[11]
Publications
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (1975).
A matter of time . Boston: D.R. Godine.
ISBN
9780879231385 .
OCLC
1656856 .
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen Jay (1987).
Illuminations: a bestiary . New York, NY: W W Norton.
ISBN
9780393304367 .
OCLC
837465107 .
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen Jay (1992).
Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors . New York: W. W. Norton.
ISBN
978-0-393-03054-9 .
[12]
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff. (1998).
Special cases : natural anomalies and historical monsters . Chronicle Books.
ISBN
0811815684 .
OCLC
316821006 .
Gould, Stephen Jay; Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2000).
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet . Three Rivers Press.
ISBN
9780609805862 .
Jay, Ricky; Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2002).
Dice: deception, fate & rotten luck . W.W. Norton.
ISBN
9780971454811 .
OCLC
51502713 .
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2003).
Owls Head . New York, N.Y.: Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
ISBN
9780971454866 .
OCLC
52208674 .
[13]
[14]
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2006). Bookworm . New York: Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton.
ISBN
9781593720230 .
OCLC
70174882 .
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Hall, L. S; Corado, René; Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (US) (2008). Egg & nest . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674031722 .
OCLC
225874305 .
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2022). Rosamond Purcell : nature stands aside . New York, NY: Electa.
ISBN
978-0-8478-7228-2 .
OCLC
1305438703 .
References
^
a
b
"Rosamond W. Purcell" . gallery.ca .
Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^
a
b Scott, A. O. (August 9, 2016).
"Review: 'An Art That Nature Makes,' an Illuminating Look at Rosamond Purcell" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on April 7, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^ Fisher, Marshall Jon (April 1, 1998).
"An Eye for Anomaly" . The Atlantic .
Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^ Glenn, Joshua (October 5, 2003).
"The Art of Decay" . Boston Globe .
Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^ Abele, Robert (September 2016).
"Documentary 'An Art That Nature Makes' is a tour through photographer Rosamond Purcell's work" . Los Angeles Times .
Archived from the original on April 7, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^
" 'An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell': Film Review" . The Hollywood Reporter . August 10, 2016.
Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
^
"Rosamond Wolff Purcell" . The Art Institute of Chicago . Retrieved July 12, 2021 .
^
"Memory Lane (Johnson and Lady Bird on a souvenir plate)" . collections.mfa.org . Retrieved June 15, 2022 .
^
"Black Sheep" . philamuseum.org . Retrieved June 15, 2022 .
^ Museum, Victoria and Albert (October 11, 1980).
"Fish Head on Silver Plate | Purcell, Rosamond W. | V&A Explore The Collections" . Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections . Retrieved June 15, 2022 .
^
"First Retrospective of Photographer and Conceptual Artist Rosamond Purcell to Open at Addison Gallery of American Art" . ArtfixDaily . Retrieved June 8, 2022 .
^ Livingston, Katherine (1992). "Review of Finders, Keepers . Eight Collectors by Rosamond Wolff Purcell and Stephen Jay Gould". Science . 257 (5077): 1775–1776.
doi :
10.1126/science.257.5077.1775.b .
p. 1776
^ Cohen, Tina (April 1, 2004),
"Review of Owls Head by Rosamond Purcell" , workingwaterfrontarchives.org
^
"Review of Owls Head by Rosamond Wolff Purcell" . Publishers Weekly . July 28, 2003.
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