Author: ITHACA GALLERY
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Artists You Should Know: Cy Twombly
An examination of Cy Twombly’s life, artistic evolution, market significance, and enduring influence on postwar art. Cy Twombly (1928–2011) stands as one of the most consequential figures of postwar abstract art. Celebrated for a monumental body of work that deliberately resisted the rigid classifications of his era, Twombly spent six decades proving that this refusal…
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The Foundations of Collecting Fine Art Photography
COLLECTOR’S GUIDE Fine art photography has evolved from a documentary and commercial medium into one of the most significant collecting categories within the global art market. Since the mid-twentieth century, museums, institutions, and collectors have increasingly recognized its central role in shaping modern and contemporary visual culture. Over the past century, the medium has produced…
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Artists You Should Know: Irving Penn
Celebrated for his masterful printmaking and uncompromising formal vision, Irving Penn remains one of the most consequential photographers of the twentieth century. Irving Penn (1917–2009) is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, celebrated for his formal precision, masterful printmaking, and an ability to bring equal authority to fashion, portraiture, and still…
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ITHACA | ISSUE 01: The May Market
New York just closed a $2.1 billion auction week. Here is what collectors need to know.––– INTRODUCING ITHACA You may know us as 3 Thirty One Collection. This is our next chapter. Ithaca was built from experience, not institution. From a collector’s beginning, where the learning is slower, the access is harder won, and the…
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Joel Meyerowitz: The Color of Now
EXHIBITION Joel Meyerowitz: the color of now JUNE 2026 | ONLINE ONLY Ithaca Gallery presents The Color of Now, an online exhibition of six works by Joel Meyerowitz spanning 1963 to the mid-1970s, a period that would prove decisive not only for the artist but for the history of photography itself. During this period, color…
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WILLIAM WEGMAN
WILLIAM WEGMAN William Wegman (born 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American artist and photographer whose practice across painting, photography, film, video, and writing has made him one of the most inventive and consistently surprising figures in American contemporary art since the 1970s. His early works were conceptual paintings, but by the early 1970s he had…
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BASTIAAN WOUDT
BASTIAAN WOUDT Bastiaan Woudt (born 1987, Alkmaar, Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer and entrepreneur whose rapid emergence as one of the most significant voices in contemporary fine art photography has been built on a practice of exceptional formal rigour and quiet visual authority. Largely self-taught, Woudt took up photography in 2011, replacing formal training with…
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MALICK SIDIBÉ
MALICK SIDIBÉ Malick Sidibé (c.1935–2016, born Soloba, French Sudan, now Mali) was a Malian photographer whose black-and-white portraits and reportage from the clubs, parties, and riverbanks of Bamako in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s constitute one of the most joyful and historically significant bodies of photography produced on the African continent in the twentieth century.…
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MATTHIAS SCHALLER
MATTHIAS SCHALLER Matthias Schaller (born 1965, Dillingen an der Donau, Germany) is a German photographer whose conceptually rigorous practice explores the relationship between presence and absence through sustained series of people-less interiors and objects. Educated in cultural anthropology at the Universities of Göttingen, Siena, and Hamburg, Schaller approaches photography as a form of indirect portraiture,…
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WILLY RONIS
WILLY RONIS Willy Ronis (1910–2009, born Paris, France) was a French photographer whose lyrical and humanist vision of post-war Paris and Provence placed him alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau as one of the defining voices of twentieth-century French photography. Raised in Montmartre, where his father ran a portrait studio, Ronis came to photography reluctantly,…
