New York
American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 – February 21, 2010, no cat.
Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.
One of the most important street photographers of the post-WWII era, Sid Grossman was born and raised in the tenements of New York City. Grossman was an influential teacher. He taught documentary photography at the New York Photo League and later held private workshops in his apartment. In the 1940s, Grossman’s work shifted from social-documentary concerns to a more deeply personal kind of art. He worked in a visceral, intuitive way—seeking symbols of life’s essential energy and mystery in everyday subjects.
Purchased from Howard Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1997;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Keith F. Davis, The Life and Work of Sid Grossman (New York: Howard Greenburg Gallery, 2016), 159 (repro.).
