FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. H. RUSSELL ALBRIGHT

Posted on 2021-04-26

For more than four decades, Dr. H. Russell Albright (1934-2017) had a profound impact on the New Orleans Museum of Art, as a donor and trustee. During the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Albright built a substantial art collection with the intention that it would one day become a permanent part of the museum’s collection. Dr. Albright collected African art, decorative arts, and modern art, but his greatest enthusiasm was for photography. His collection began with acquisitions of important early twentieth-century photographs, but soon shifted toward contemporary works, resulting in a collection with great range from beautiful prints by photographers such as Brassaï and Doris Ulmann to large-scale works by Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Yasamusa Morimura, among many others.

Opposite – Lovers, Rue Saint Denis, 1931, Brassaï

Exhibition runs through to July 4th, 2021

Noma – New Orleans Museum Of Art
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson
AZ 85721

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