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THB2 Volume Set of Books on Peter Beard (1938-2020)
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 18, 2025
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2 Volume Set of Books on Peter Beard (1938-2020). Extensive collection of photographs and writings about the life and work of the artist, in matching red leather covers and numbered I and II. Both hardcover, published in 2008. Comes with blue protective slipcase.
Size: 3 x 9 x 13 in.
#8626 .
Peter Hill Beard was born on January 22nd, 1938 in New York City. His father Anson McCook Beard Jr. was the heir to the Great Northern Railroad fortune, and Beard spent much of his childhood traveling between Alabama and their estate in Islip, Long Island. His family and relatives all owned extensive art collections, as the railroad founder James Jerome Hill had initially used the fortune to become a major patron of the arts, and this had an early impact on Beard. He began keeping diaries as a young boy and making photographs to help with his documentations at the age of 12. After graduating from the prestigious Pomfret School he entered Yale University in 1957, with the intention of pursuing pre-med studies, only to switch his major to art history after one year. At Yale he was tapped into the secret society Scroll and Key, and found several mentors including Josef Albers, Richard Lindner and Vincent Scully. He graduated with his bachelors in 1961, by which time he had already achieved recognition for his photography of wildlife. After trips to Africa in 1955 and 1960 he decided to spend an extended period in Kenya, where he worked at Tsavo National Park photographing and documenting the demise of 35,000 elephants that later became the subject of his first book, The End of the Game. During this time Beard acquired Hog Ranch, a property near the Ngong Hills adjacent to the coffee farm owned by Karen Blixen, which would become his lifelong home-base in East Africa. Beard married his first wife, Mary “Minnie” Olivia Cochran Cushing in 1967, but they divorced three years later. His second wife was fashion model Cheryl Tiegs, who he married in 1981 and divorced in 1983. In 1986 he married Nejma Khanum, with whom he had a daughter, Zara. His first exhibition was at the Blum Helman Gallery, New York City, in 1975. Landmark museum exhibitions have been held at the International Center of Photography and the Centre national de la photographie, Paris, with countless gallery exhibitions in Berlin, London, Toronto, Madrid, Milan, Tokyo, and Vienna. From the 1980s onward he was one of the most respected African wildlife photographers in the world, creating multimedia works with elements derived from his daily diary-keeping, newspaper clippings, dried leaves, insects, old sepia-toned photos, transcribed telephone messages, marginalia in India ink, photographs of women, quotes, found objects, and the like. Some of his more extensive collages incorporated animal blood, and sometimes his own blood, as a statement on art and the artist’s place in the context of the Environmentalist Movement. In 1996 he was badly injured by an elephant but survived, becoming a vocal advocate for them and the expansion of their territory. His charismatic personality and extensive portfolio led him to befriend and often collaborate with many other artists, including Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Francis Bacon, Truman Capote, Richard Lindner, and Salvador Dalí. In the 2000s he and Nejma moved to a home in Montauk due to worsening health issues from the elephant injury, where they created The Peter Beard Studio and Online Archive, a repository of published and unpublished written and visual material relating to the artist’s life, work, projects, travels, and exhibitions. On March 31st, 2020 he wandered away from home and was not found for over two weeks. He was suffering from dementia and ill health after a stroke, and his body was finally discovered by a hunter in a densely wooded area in Camp Hero State Park on April 19th.
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