Newhall and Adams co-curated the department’s inaugural exhibition, “Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics” (December 31, 1940–January 12, 1941). The two men remained close friends and colleagues throughout their lives. Newhall had married in 1936. When the United States entered...
survey of German literature. Its major periods, movements, works, and themes are discussed and set into their political and culturalcontext. The aim is to characterize major and representative works and ideas and not to attempt a complete or even thorough survey of authors and the literary scene...
(1936–37), a pair of shows that introduced America to the finest avant-garde artists working in both Europe and the United States; and “Photography 1839–1937” (1937; curated by Beaumont Newhall), the museum’s first exhibition on the fairly nascent medium—an ambitious survey of ...