Larry Colwell
American, 1901-1972
Born 1901 or 1911, Detroit, Michigan
Died 1972, New Canaan, Connecticut
Colwell began his career in photography in Los Angeles, studying at the Art Center School and the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) from 1939 to1941. He then moved to New York City and worked as a photographer in the advertising industry, building a successful independent studio. Time,Life, Harper's Bazaar, U.S. Camera Annual, and Aperture magazines regularly published his photographs during the forties. Colwell became a member of the Photo League in the late 1940s and in 1950 moved to Monterey, California, where he joined the West Coast group of photographers that included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Ruth Bernard. After living in Europe for four years, he taught photography at the Jacksonville Art Museum in Florida (1964–68) and then at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, until 1971. In his later years he established the Photo Graphics Workshop in New Canaan.
Died 1972, New Canaan, Connecticut
Colwell began his career in photography in Los Angeles, studying at the Art Center School and the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) from 1939 to1941. He then moved to New York City and worked as a photographer in the advertising industry, building a successful independent studio. Time,Life, Harper's Bazaar, U.S. Camera Annual, and Aperture magazines regularly published his photographs during the forties. Colwell became a member of the Photo League in the late 1940s and in 1950 moved to Monterey, California, where he joined the West Coast group of photographers that included Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Ruth Bernard. After living in Europe for four years, he taught photography at the Jacksonville Art Museum in Florida (1964–68) and then at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, until 1971. In his later years he established the Photo Graphics Workshop in New Canaan.
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