What Artist, if Only One Could be on Your Walls

[Tin Can]

To clarify the dilemma,

What if you could have only 3 photographic prints, all by one artist hanging in your home for the rest of your life.

Disregard genre, price, value and size. One artist.

Any 3 Prints in the world yours for life AS THE ONLY Art on your walls.

However, you can never sell them, profit in any way and they would not be transferred to your spouse, heirs or estate after you die.

The Art would simply disappear...



A riff on the 1955 to 1960 TV show, 'The Millionaire' and the preceding 1932, 'If I Had a Million'.

[bob carnie]

Three prints by Brassai

[JMB]

The new criteria adds an important element to the selection (namely focus upon something essential in the viewers conception of art). But ultimately they underscore just how difficult it is to separate how different artists can satisfy a particular conception --even a very powerful conception. But here goes (with a twist):

Photography: Man Ray (But the separation breaks my heart and invokes tremendous injustice).
Painting: Vincent van Gogh
Sculpture: Rodin

One, and only one artist?

Vincent van Gogh

[pepeguitarra]

Here are some of the few:


https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ansel-...-san-francisco

https://noisydecentgraphics.typepad....gado_anta3.jpg

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photogra.../id-a_3066381/

http://aaphotoandenvironmentalist.bl...areer.html?m=0

https://www.lowerylandscapes.com/zio...rtcg07ndxd03su

One and only one artist (photographer):

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ansel-...-san-francisco

[Bruce Watson]

Disregard genre, price, value and size. One artist.

Any 3 Prints in the world yours for life AS THE ONLY Art on your walls.

Either Adams, or Porter. Either one, both inspire me in (considerably) different ways. But I could live with three of Adams' Yosemite images, or three of Porter's dye transfers. Either one. I'd be a happy man.

[John Layton]

Edward Weston...but so many of his works swim equally in my head that I can choose only one - Pepper #30. Hmmm...maybe add the "two nautilus" print to this, and maybe also one of Charis in the dunes...this or one of Tina M. singing. (then again...Orozco?) very difficult to choose!

[Jac@stafford.net]

If I could afford his work, Emmet Gowin.
One example: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46763

[Tin Can]

Jac, dreams are free...in fact we can't stop them...

If I could afford his work, Emmet Gowin.
One example: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46763

[Jac@stafford.net]

Jac, dreams are free...in fact we can't stop them...

I have had unsatisfactory results printing from a dream, and I have tried! I kid you not, Randy, it's a nightmare.

[Peter Lewin]

I would be thrilled to have works by either William Clift or Paul Strand. If forced to chose (and price was no object), Strand. (One of the three would be his White Fence, 1916)