Philadelphia Museum of Art Acquires 3,000 Paul Strand Photos


Paul Strand’s “Blind Woman” (negative 1916, print c. 1920s), “Mlle. Pogany, New York (Brancusi)” (1922), and “Man Carving Chair II, Mr. Bolster, Vermont” (1943) are among the more than 3,000 works acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

It’s turning out to be a very good week for the photography holdings of major museums. Right on the heels of the Art Institute of Chicago’s announcement that it will receive more than 15,000 items from the collection of Richard Nickel comes word that the Philadelphia

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