Joe Deal Photographs Acquired by Three Major Museums

Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition of a collection of works by Joe Deal by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1947, Deal was a leader in the New Topographics movement and one of the original exhibiting artists in the 1975 seminal exhibition of the same name. Focusing on human interventions into the landscape, Deal's work portrays the American west and midwest with an unflinching honesty. Houses and backyards, roads and mobile homes tell a story of America as it is in images unromanticized yet captivating in their unaffected candor.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is home to one of the preeminent collections of photography in the world. A homecoming to the region for Deal, who was raised in Missouri, this momentous acquisition compliments the museum's current collection of Deal's work, along with the Nelson-Atkins' other prodigious holdings by noteworthy New Topographics artists including Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel.

Additionally, recent institutional acquisitions of Deal's work also include those by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which recently received a complete set of Deal's seminal Fault Zone portfolio.

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Pictured: (left) View, Rawlins, Wyoming, 1977; (right) View, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1976.