When Sarah Kennel Curated the First Sally Mann Retrospective for the National Gallery of Art in 2015

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

March 4 – May 28, 2018
West Building, Footing Floor

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

For more than than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, want, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to man endeavor. What unites this broad body of work is that information technology is all bred of a place, the American S. A native of Lexington, Virginia, Isle of mann has long written about what it means to alive in the Southward and exist identified as a southerner. Using her deep dearest of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions—near history, identity, race, and religion—that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings considers how Mann's relationship with this country has shaped her work and how the legacy of the Southward—as both homeland and graveyard, refuge and battleground—continues to permeate American identity.

Organized into 5 sections—Family, The Country, Final Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains—and including many works not previously published or publicly shown, the exhibition is the offset major survey of the creative person's work to travel internationally. Featuring some 110 photographs, the exhibition is curated past Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Fine art, and Sarah Kennel, the Byrne Family Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum.

Sally Mann: A M Crossings

Emerge Isle of mann, On the Maury, 1992, gelatin silver impress, Private collection. Image © Sally Mann

Emerge Isle of mann: A G Crossings

Sally Mann, Easter Dress, 1986, gelatin silver print, Patricia and David Schulte. Prototype © Sally Isle of man

Sally Mann: A Thou Crossings

Sally Isle of man, The Ditch, 1987, gelatin silverish print, The Art Institute of Chicago, Souvenir of Emerge Isle of mann and Edwynn Houk Gallery. The Fine art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY, Image © Sally Isle of mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Emerge Mann, Encarmine Nose, 1991, silver dye bleach print, Private drove. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Emerge Mann, Deep South, Untitled (Fontainebleau), 1998, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Stephen G. Stein Employee Benefit Trust. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Isle of mann: A G Crossings

Sally Isle of mann, Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie), 1998, gelatin silver print, Markel Corporate Art Collection. Image © Emerge Mann

Emerge Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Emerge Isle of man, Deep Due south, Untitled (Scarred Tree), 1998, gelatin silvery print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern G. Schad Fund. Epitome © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Sally Mann, Battlefields, Fredericksburg (Cedar Trees), 2001, gelatin silver print, Waterman / Kislinger Family. Paradigm © Emerge Isle of man

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Emerge Isle of mann, Battlefields, Antietam (Starry Night), 2001, gelatin silvery print, Alan Kirshner and Deborah Mihaloff Fine art Collection. Image © Emerge Mann

Emerge Mann: A M Crossings

Emerge Mann, Battlefields, Cold Harbor (Battle), 2003, gelatin silver impress, National Gallery of Fine art, Washington, Souvenir of the Collectors Committee and the Sarah and William L Walton Fund. Prototype © Sally Isle of mann

Emerge Mann: A Grand Crossings

Sally Mann, The Two Virginias #4, 1991, gelatin silvery print, Collection of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Image © Sally Isle of mann

Sally Mann: A K Crossings

Emerge Mann, Beulah Baptist, 2008–2016, gelatin silver impress, Drove of the artist. Epitome © Emerge Isle of mann

Sally Mann: A K Crossings

Emerge Mann, Blackwater three, 2008–2012, tintype, Collection of the artist. Epitome © Sally Isle of man

Sally Mann: A Thou Crossings

Sally Mann, Virginia #six, 2004, gelatin silvery print, Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

Sally Mann, Ponder Heart, 2009, gelatin silver impress, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Isle of mann: A Thousand Crossings

Sally Mann, Was Ever Love, 2009, gelatin silver print, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment (2010.163). Image © Sally Mann

Organisation: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

Sponsors: The exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the Trellis Fund.

Additional support is provided past Emerge Engelhard Pingree and The Charles Engelhard Foundation.

Passes: Access is ever gratuitous and passes are not required

Other venues: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, June 30–September 23, 2018
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November sixteen, 2018–February 10, 2019
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–May 27, 2019
Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17–September 22, 2019
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Oct 19–Dec sixteen, 2019

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Source: https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/sally-mann-a-thousand-crossings.html

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