Rosamond_W._Purcell

Rosamond W. Purcell

Rosamond W. Purcell

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

  1. [1]
    "Rosamond W. Purcell". gallery.ca. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Fisher, Marshall Jon (April 1, 1998). "An Eye for Anomaly". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  4. [4]
    Glenn, Joshua (October 5, 2003). "The Art of Decay". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    "'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.
  7. [7]
    "Rosamond Wolff Purcell". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  8. [8]
    "Memory Lane (Johnson and Lady Bird on a souvenir plate)". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Black Sheep". philamuseum.org. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  10. [10]
    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.
  11. [11]
    "First Retrospective of Photographer and Conceptual Artist Rosamond Purcell to Open at Addison Gallery of American Art". ArtfixDaily. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  12. [12]
    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
  13. [13]
    Cohen, Tina (April 1, 2004), "Review of Owls Head by Rosamond Purcell", workingwaterfrontarchives.org
  14. [14]
    "Review of Owls Head by Rosamond Wolff Purcell". Publishers Weekly. July 28, 2003.


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