Stuart Klipper
Stuart Klipper (b. 1941) is an American fine art and landscape photographer. His craft has taken him across the globe, from Antarctica, to the Arctic Circle, to the Aboriginal Outback of Australia, to the Middle East, and South America. For nearly 30 years, Klipper has also made photos in all 50 states, an endeavor in which he seeks to distill the defining characteristics of the varied American regions. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships, and three McKnight Foundation Fellowships, among other honors.
Klipper's images have been exhibited in, and collected by, major museums nationally and internationally. Institutions that have collected and exhibited his work include the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.); The Library of Congress (Washington D.C.); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to name a few. Solo exhibitions of his work include the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Jewish Museum (New York).