For the fun of it and to make your new year a bit more beautiful, I'm spotlighting over 100 photographs I've acquired over the years for my personal/gallery collection.These are vintage one-of-a-kind works—plus a few color works by Jimmy DeSana and Henry Chalfant.
Enjoy having a look. Take an unprecedented 50% off of the retail prices shown! If you want to buy—or have questions—you can click the Inquire button or email me at steve@stevenkasher.com.
My book is now real! It’s on Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes&Noble for you to pre-order. On Amazon you can even read blurbs from Teju Cole, Laurie Anderson, Emil Ferris and more. The book will be in stores March 31st. Published by the redoubtable Abbeville Press.
I’m so grateful to the brilliant Sophie Crumb for the fabulous cover. Sophie catches the spirit of the book with images from five of its twenty-five stories. Stories about my friend Ernest Withers, the great Civil Rights Movement photographer who was outed as an FBI informant; about the Greenwich Village mobster who painted like Henri Rousseau; about the majestic Clayoquot Woman that Edward Curtis revered and despised; about Philip Guston, the smoking Zen Master; about me and that flamingo.
I began writing in the summer of 2020. It’s a book about images that changed my life—from childhood, from my years as an art student, an artist, an art dealer. Stories about images that live large in my mind, the meanings I find in them, the lessons they teach.
The great Tara Booth just won the Eisner (the Oscar of comics/graphic novels). Category: Humor Publication. For her book Processing. A compendium of 100 painted stories that make us laugh/cry. Congrats, Tara!!
Original paintings on paper for sale. Call or email me.
MUUS Collection has donated the Fred W. McDarrah Estate to The New York Historical, New York’s first museum. The McDarrah Estate includes approximately 51,000 prints, 200,000 negatives, 9,000 contact sheets, and related ephemera. The New York Historical is one of the premier institutions for historical research and exhibitions in the United States.
You can can explore four exhibitions and 25 press items about Fred here: www.stevenkasher.com/artists/fred-w-mcdarrah
Read the donation announcement here: https://www.muuscollection.com/post/donation-announcement-the-fred-w-mcdarrah-estate