What Artist, if Only One Could be on Your Walls

[William Whitaker]

Will, I was fishing for that answer

Not to denigrate anyone's opinion or desire.

However, I would also choose my own 'Work!', as Maynard G Krebs would shriek.

I really enjoy making and viewing MY art!

This thread and the other one have been very educational for me. I never heard of many of the favorites and looked each one up.

Keep em coming, please...

If I take myself seriously at all, then surely I must be self-inclusive? That's not to put me on par with the masters. Nor so vain as to put myself above others. It's just an honest answer.

[Mark Sampson]

It's a very large question. Three years working at a world-renowned art museum makes me want to think very hard about my choice. If I decide at all, I'll post my answer...

[PRJ]

I think it would be among the golden triumvirate for me. Weston, Kertesz and Gibson. Each for their own reason, but it would be hard to choose...

[Peter Lewin]

A slight digression triggered by several responses. In the "real world," I have a family room where I hang lots of photographs, say 60% of my work, and 40% purchased. The purchased work is intermingled partly because I love looking at it, but also to give me a point of comparison for my own. When my own prints blend in, I know I am seeing and printing well; if it sticks out like a sore thumb, I know I have work to do. So to come back to this thread, my choice(s) are aspirational, I want the best quality prints and ways of seeing that I can find on the wall. It doesn't mean I wouldn't continue to pursue my own photography, and compare it to my "new" standards (in my earlier post I chose Clift or Strand), but it also says I wouldn't choose to hang my own prints (as per the "only 3 prints hanging forever" rule) and not have anything to compare my work to.

[drewf64]

Edward Weston
1. Floating Nude, 1939.
2. Knees of Dancer, 1927.
3. Pepper, 1930. (The one shown in "Photography and Modernism" as Plate 38.)
*** This, IMHO, is a beautiful book!

[Laminarman]

Tough questions but probably three of Adams Yosemite images, or two Yosemite and his Leaf, Glacier Bay or maybe a portrait. I just don't tire looking at them.

[aclark]

James Ravilious.

Alan

[bigdog]

Chema Madoz

[John Kasaian]

My kids artwork, on the fridge door with magnets

[aaronnate]

Hard to decide.

I used to think an Adams mural-sized print would be perfect but lately not so much. I seem to be moving back to my roots here in the AZ desert, and love of impressionism.

Monet _The Avenue and 2 Water Lillies. I'll need a bigger room too because I want the BIG ones
or
R.C. Gorman_ The Monarch, Chilli Peppers, Navajo Mother.