Ira Wright MARTIN

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016-2017 Ira Martin: The Family Archive, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

1986 Photographs of New York and other subjects, Photocollect, New York, NY

1939 Photographs from 1899-1939, Camera Club of New York

1931 My Ten Years in Pictorial Photography, Light and Shade traveling exhibition

1930 Portage Camera Club, Akron, OH

Camera Club of Providence, Rhode Island Engineering Society

1929 New York Skyscraper Series, Light and Shade traveling exhibition

50 Photographs of Old Charlotte, Camera Club of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1928 New York in Transition: Exhibition of Thirty Photographs by Ira Wright Martin under the auspices of the Pictorial Photographers of America, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Ira Martin - Photographs of Uptown New York, Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA

1927 New York in Transition: Exhibition of Thirty Photographs by Ira Wright Martin under the auspices of the Pictorial Photographers of America, The Art Center, New York, NY

1924 Pictorial Photographers of America Solo Exhibition, Art Center, New York, NY

1922 Clarence H. White School of Photography alumni exhibition, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1996-1998 Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography, traveling exhibition to Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

International Center for Photography, New York, NY

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1992 Proto-Modern Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1977 Concerning Photography, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

1936 Views of New York – Old and New, Pictorial Photographers of America,

Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

1934 Photography by Leading American Photographers , Mills College, Oakland, CA

1933 Gallery of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia

1932 New York by New Yorkers, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY

1927 Studio of the Department of Photography, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

1925 Pictorial Photographers of America group exhibition, The Art Center, New York, NY

1923 Pictorial Photographers of America group exhibition of “landscape with figure”, The Art Center, New York, NY

Pictorial Photographers of America, The Art Center, New York, NY

1922 Pictorial Photographers of America group exhibition, The Art Center, New York, NY

Pictorial Photographers of America group exhibition of portraiture, The Art Center, New York, NY

1921 Pictorial Photographers of America, The Art Center, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2014 Alinder, Mary Street. Group f.64. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. p. 177-178, 303

1996 Fulton, Marianne. Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. p. 197.

1995 The Dwarfs (city buildings) reproduced in Davis, Keith. An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection. New York: Abrams, 1995. p. 93

1989 Hambourg, Maria Morris, and Christopher Phillips. The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Abrams, 1989. pp. 33-34, 51, p. 31 (The Belt Wheel, 1923, ill.)

1982 Still Life reproduced in Sandweiss, Martha A. Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection. Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1982. pl. 64

1941 “Progress Keynote of His Picture: Martin Specializes in Prints of Country Life”, New York Sun (March 22, 1941), n.p.

1939 Plant reproduced in Popular Photography, (June 1939), p. 35

1934 Still Life reproduced in Strong, William. Photography for Fun. Leisure League of America (1934), p. 75

1931 Steam and Steel reproduced in Modern Photography (1931), p. 32

“Southern Americana,” Vogue (December 15, 1931), p. 48-49

1930 Electricity in the Sky (high-wire pole) reproduced in American Photography (July 1930), p. 333

Electricity in the Sky (high-wire pole) reproduced in Camera Craft (August 1930), p. 71

1929 Tulips reproduced in Light and Shade (May 1929), p. 7

“More Topless Towers for New York,” Vanity Fair (November, 1929), 33.3. p. 86-87

Transition reproduced in Camera Craft (December 1929), p. 561

1928 A Young Lady Reading reproduced in Camera (June 1928), p. 323

1926 The Bee’s Knees – a design reproduced in Pictorial Photography in America, Vol. 4. New York: Pictorial Photographers of America Annual (1926), p. 71

Silly Boats reproduced in American Photography (Jan. 1926), p. 13

1924 Design (fruit basket on paisley fabric) reproduced in Camera Pictures. New York: Alumni Association of the Clarence H. White School of Photography (1924), p. 411

1922 Morning Sunlight reproduced in Pictorial Photography in America, Vol. 3. New York: Pictorial Photographers of America Annual (1922), p. 78

1921 “Experiments in Modernistic Photography: Ira Martin Attempts to Solve with the Camera Some of the Problems which Confront the Cubist Painter,” Vanity Fair (July 1921), p.60

COLLECTIONS

Amon-Carter Museum, Forth Worth, TX

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The Frick Collection, New York, NY

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

New Orleans Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Martin, Ira W. “A New Bridge in an Old Town.” Camera Craft, October 1924

Martin, Ira W. “Women in Photography.” Pictorial Photography in America, Vol. 5.

New York: Pictorial Photographers of America Annual, 1929

Martin, Ira W. “Salon Policies.” Light and Shade, April 1930, p. 6-7, 10

Martin, Ira W. “Why Should Style in Pictures Change?” Camera Craft,

October 1930 (Vol. 37), p. 480-488

Martin, Ira W. “Evolution of Modern Photography.” Light and Shade,

February – March 1932, p. 4-5, 10-11

Martin, Ira W. “Making the Salon Print: Lesson Number Two,”

Bulletin of the Pictorial Photographers of America, December 1932, p. 3

Martin, Ira W. “Ira W. Martin” My Best Photographs and Why. Ed. G. Herbert Taylor.

New York: The Dodge Publishing Company, c. 1937. p. 60-61.

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EDUCATION

ca. 1910 Art Studies, Santa Barbara, CA

1918-1919 Clarence H. White School of Photography