Frieze 91 Members are invited for an exclusive private view and tour of Richard Avedon Ten Exhibition Prints from In the American West
Gagosian presents an exhibition of large-scale photographic portraits from Richard Avedon’s series In the American West (1979–84), which was commissioned in 1978 by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The ten photographs on view, are the original exhibition prints created for the 1985 debut of the series, and have not been shown together publicly since then. The portraits, each of which measures almost seven feet in height, were originally installed facing the Carter’s facade windows, where they could be seen by the exhibition’s many visitors as they stood in enormous lines to attend the show. Also on view at Gagosian will be archival photographs and other materials documenting Avedon’s development of this celebrated series.