New Orleans Museum of Art announces extraordinary gift of photographs from Cherye and James Pierce
Robert Capa (American, born Hungary, 1913-1954), The Falling Soldier, 1936. Gelatin silver print, image: 9 1/2 x 14 in. Gift of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce, 57.21.
NEW ORLEANS, LA
.- Distinguished collectors Cherye R. and James (Jim) F. Pierce have gifted more than 260 photographs by master art photographers, ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
The Pierces gift to NOMA is representative of their wide-ranging collecting interests. It includes vintage prints by Ansel Adams, Ilse Bing, Brassaï, and Heinrich Kühn, contemporary masterworks by Laila Essaydi, Deborah Luster, William Eggleston, and platinum prints by Frederick Evans, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo (commissioned directly from the artist), and Lois Conner. Their gift also includes several iconic images such as The Falling Soldier by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bressons Behind t