Artist: John Beasley Greene (1832 - 1856)
Nationality: French-American
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Media: Photgraphy
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Biography:
Although born in France, John Beasley Greene was raised in the United States. He studied to become an archaeologist and based his practice out of Paris. Greene studied photography under Gustave Le Gray and helped found the Societe Francaise de photographie. He was the first archaeologist to use photography to document his work. In 1853, Green traveled across Egypt and Nubia. When he returned to France, Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard published a book of ninety-four of his photographs from the journey. In 1855, photographs from Greene’s second visit to Medinet-Habu in Upper Egypt were published. He died a year later in Egypt, possibly from tuberculosis.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Beasley Greene, Thebes - Ramesseion, circa 1850 - 1855
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Temple of Amon, Thebes (near Luxor)
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Rufus Greene (Katherine Stanbridge Greene), circa 1760
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Thomas Sully, American (born in England), 1783-1872 The Torn Hat 1820 Oil on panel 48.58
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John Singleton Copley - Thomas Greene 1758 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene) c. 1764 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Alfred T. Ordway, American, 1821-1897 Landscape about 1868 Oil on paperboard 27.62 x 34.92 cm
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William Hart, American, 1823-1894 Birches 1855 Oil on canvas 43.5 x 24.45 cm (17 1/8
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John Williamson, American (born in Scotland), 1826-1885 Mountainous Landscape 1870"s Oil on board 10.79 x
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John Williamson, American (born in Scotland), 1826-1885 Western Landscape with Tepees Oil on board 10.48
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Robert Earle Henri, American, 1865-1929 Stephen Greene 1924 Oil on canvas 60.96 x 50.8 cm
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Artist: Charles Greene and Henry Greene Title: Side chair Date: 1907 Medium: Honduran mahogany, ebony,
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Charlotte Nichols Greene and her Son Stephen, 1924-1924 Charcoal on
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 Head of a Jew 1817 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.82
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Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849-1921 Girl in White (Margaret Greene) about 1888 Oil on canvas
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John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Lord Fauconberg (Henry Belasyse, Second Earl of Fauconberg) about 1792
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Battle of the Pyrenees 1812-15 Oil on canvas 198.75 x
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 George IV When Prince of Wales 1809 Oil on canvas
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Venus and Cupid about 1779 Oil on canvas mounted on
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John Bulkley Greene - Ramesseum in Thebes c. 1853-54 Blanquart-Evrard Pro Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Whitework sampler Band sampler England, mid-17th century Linen plain weave ground embroidered with linen 114.2
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Saul Reproved by Samuel 1798 Oil on canvas 172.08 x
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Mrs. John Amory (Katherine Greene) about 1763 Oil on canvas
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Herb Greene, Bill Graham Presents (88) Jefferson Airplane; Charlatans, Fillmore Auditorium, 10/11-12/67; Winterland, 10/13-12/67, 1967
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Embroidered by Katherine Greene Amory, American (Boston, Massachusetts), 1731 –1777 Rufus Greene family Coat of
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 The Ascension 1775 Oil on canvas 81.28 x 73.02 cm
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Walter L. Greene - Thoroughbreds 1927 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Graham Greene USA, 1964 Photograph,
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Pieter Claesz., Dutch, 1597-1598–1661 Still Life with Wine Goblet and Oysters 1630s Oil on panel
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Ball Gown, spring/summer 1948 Designed by Cristobal Balenciaga (French, born Spain, 1895-1972)French; Made Paris, Francesilk,
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Edward Greene Malbone, American, 1777-1807 Portrait of a Young Man 1797-1807 Graphite pencil over wash
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Elizabeth B. Greene, American, 1837-1915 Roses 1890s Oil on canvas mounted on paperboard Museum of
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Rufus Greene, 1707-1777 Caster (one of a pair) United States, Massachusetts, (Boston), about 1730 Silver
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 The Copley Family about 1788 Oil on canvas 52.07 x
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Portrait of a Lama Tibeto-Chinese, Buddhist China, for a Tibetan Buddhist temple, 18th century Gilt
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Unidentified artist, American, third quarter 18th century Mother and Child about 1755 Oil on canvas
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Michiel Jansz van Miereveld, Dutch, 1567-1641 Adriana van Ijlen Oil on panel 104.8 x 88.9

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (21)
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Photographers' Gallery: Milton H. Greene: Portraits of an Era
Along with Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton, Greene helped to turn fashion photography into an art form. However, it was his photographs of Hollywood's greatest icons of the 1950s, from Marilyn Monroe to Elizabeth Taylor and Frank ...
Plus Ultra Gallery: Salon Style: An Exhibition of Photography
Representing a broad range of innovative photographic techniques, the work in Salon Style is unified conceptually through a shared exploration of the relationship between landscapes and objects. Sometimes front-and-center, sometimes quite ob...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Faux, Foe, Pho: Work from Houston High Schools
Last year's Teen Council Exhibition, Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Work from Houston Area High Schools, featured the works of 29 artists and was accompanied by special programs for high school students. This exhibition will be accompanied by a P...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
The exhibition will demonstrate how the artist’s highly focused body of work - consisting almost entirely of portraiture - reflects this intellectual, religious, and political heritage, despite his uniquely modernist style. Incudes painting...
Dayton Art Institute: Go Figure: Exploring The Human Body In Art
The Art Institute's new Experiencenter exhibition, Go Figure: Exploring the Human Body in Art, will invite all ages to explore how the human figure is depicted in western and non-western cultures. The Mead Corporation Foundation is pleased to spon...
Museum of Fine Art, Houston: Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution

More than 90 paintings and drawings in a variety of media, including paintings rarely or never exhibited in the United States, are being lent by museums and ...
Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, Madisonville Community College: Reviving Renaissance: Paintings by Tom Kennedy
Tom has produced award-winning work as an illustrator, graphic designer and artist since 1976. His work has been commissioned by major corporations, public institutions and individuals for its sensitive portraiture and montage work involvin...
QUT Art Museum: The Brisbane Line: Queensland Women Artists of the Early Twentieth Century
The exhibition, which provides a diversity of inspiration from nineteenth-century moody impressionism and urban spaces of Brisbane to portraits of fashionable women of the ‘flapper’ era, has been co-curated by Robyn Daw, Manager, Education, National ...
Plug In: Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 - Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb
Their fresh and cheeky photocollage resonated with pop imagery, revitalizing the way we imagine modern living. All their projects were presented in a colourful pop style which challenged the serious and institutional approach favoured by archit...
Jewish Museum: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
Known primarily for his paintings of reclining nudes and his portraits with elegantly elongated features, Modigliani was an anomaly among the artists (many of them foreign-born Jews) who were active in the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th ce...
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.: FUTURE TIME
An all-day symposium - December 3, 1999, 9:30 - 6:00 p.m. Taipei Theater Auditorium, New York, NY, (Lower level of the McGraw-Hill Building 1221 Avenue of the Americas - btw 48/49th Streets - 212 373-1854). Pre-Registration via email by: **...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Killer Instinct in the Zenith Media Lounge
The time-based nature of Johnson's game software allows these two characters to interact dynamically without a proscribed outcome. In Heaven @ 711, Anne-Marie Schleiner turns the DJ aspects of hip hop music into a stunning, formalist arcade-style...
Grounds for Sculpture: The Sculptors Guild: A Group Exhibition
Sculptures by the following contemporary artists are on view: David Boyajian, Leonard Cave, Ann Chahbandour, Joan Danziger, David E. Davis, Fritz Dietel, Jo o Duarte, Nick Edmonds, Lin Emery, Joseph Fucigna, Don Gale, Irene Gennaro, Lucy Hodgso...
Grounds for Sculpture: Last Chance! The Sculptors Guild: A Group Exhibition

Sculptures by the following contemporary artists are on view: David Boyajian, Leonard Cave, Ann Chahbandour, Joan Danziger, David E. Davis, Fritz Dietel, Jo o Duarte, Nick Edmonds, Lin Emery, Joseph Fucigna, Don Gale, Irene Gennaro, Lucy Hod...
Urban Glass, Robert Lehman Gallery: Illuminating Surfaces: Bisazza and the Art of Mosaic
“We are thrilled to be able to partner with Bisazza to present this dynamic show,” said Dawn Bennett, executive director of UrbanGlass, “In the realm of Italian glass mosaic art, Bisazza has distinguished itself globally not only for producing the...
Sanford Smith: Fall Antiques Show
The Fall Antiques Show gathers 70 outstanding dealers from all over the United States, including Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago, IL) with masterworks by American self-taught artists; Kathryn Bere...
GenArtSF: Fifth Annual Emerge 2002 Showcasing Promising Local Talent in the Visual Arts
The record number of submissions for this year‚s Emerge 2002 (more than 300) was encouraging, and proves that the high price of living in the Bay Area hasn‚t deterred young emerging artists from living and working here. The quality of work was rem...
Tabla Rasa Gallery: Project Diversity: SPArC Art! 
Director of Tabla Rasa Gallery, Audrey Anastasi says, "We are thrilled to be among the 16 host galleries of this project. It truly reflects Brooklyn's rich cultural mix. The artwork is teeming with exuberance. We want everyone to know they are we...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Shirley Wiitasalo, Candida Höfer, Christine Davis
In one sense, after 1990 Shirley Wiitasalo simply reduced her variables: the paintings have become noticeably smaller, her colours fewer (often to the point of monochromy) and what she paints can usually be summed up in a single word: the name of ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color
The optical sensation of color is the primary subject of Kenneth Noland’s work. “I wanted color to be the origin of painting,” the artist has stated. A seminal figure of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s, Noland balances strict formalism wit...
Art 33 Basel: Art 33 Basel: The Center of the International Art World
The 'Art Unlimited' hall shows special art projects and now also features a lounge uniting an art bookshop, a video library and the E-Lounge, which provides a place for artists to mingle with the public. Over 50,000 visitors (2001: 55,000 visitors...

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