Ramon Esquila (Primary Title)
Untitled (Youth with Beret) (Former Title)

Louis Draper, American, 1935 - 2002 (Artist)

1975
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Place Made,United States
Sheet: 6 13/16 × 6 9/16 in. (17.3 × 16.67 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 in. (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
2013.155
Not on view
Gift of Louis H. Draper Trust
"Black in White America" Cleveland Museum of Art, February 26 - July 30, 2017

Identity Shifts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, April 26 – July 27, 2014

Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop, VMFA, February 1 - June 14, 2020; Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2020 - March 28, 2021; Cincinnati Art Museum, February - May, 2022; J. Paul Getty Museum, July-October, 2022
©artist or artist’s estate

Photographer Louis Draper
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Chiefly known as as a New York photographer, Louis Draper was first a Richmonder. His sister, Nell Draper Winston, talks about her brother’s ability to capture the character of everyday people.

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