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L to R: Betty Woodman working at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, France, c. 1987 / Installation views, Betty Woodman: L’allegra vitalità delle porcellane, Palazzo Pitti, Museo delle Porcelane, Florence, Italy, 2010 / Betty Woodman. Puccini, 1989. 6 x 13.2 x 8.274 in. Glazed porcelain / Betty Woodman. Beccafumi, 2002. 8.9 x 7.9 x 8.2 in. Glazed porcelain © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Betty Woodman working at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, France, c. 1987. Woodman Family Foundation Archives.
Betty Woodman's Sèvres porcelain, 1987
In 1987, Betty Woodman began her work at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, as an artist invited by the French Ministry of Culture. Over the course of more than twenty years, she made a series of sculptural vases and cups and saucers in brilliantly decorated porcelain, later shown at the Palazzo Pitti in her adopted home city of Florence.
Read MoreL to R: George Woodman’s studio space at Grand Arts, 2004 / Installation views at Grand Arts, 2004 / George Woodman. Chinese Chrysanthemums and the Chaos of Love, 2004. 64 1/4 x 39 1/4 in. Gelatin silver print / George Woodman. Ruth, Baby, Saskia, et al., 2004. 65 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. Gelatin silver print.
George Woodman’s studio space at Grand Arts, 2004. Woodman Family Foundation Archives
George Woodman’s residency at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, 2004
During his 2004 residency at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, George Woodman continued his work with one-of-a-kind, large-scale still life photographs, made using a camera obscura.
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