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Photography By Ernest Knee

1907-1982
The Ernest Knee photographic Trust

He was Howard Hughes personal photographer for seven years and the first cameraman to record
Angel Falls,the world's highest waterfall,in the remote jungles of Venezuela. But of the thousands of
photographs Knee took during the1930s and 40s,his heart, and eye,gravitated most to the majesty
of New Mexico's skies, churches, villages and endless landscapes. He became friends with many
artists of the time, including Edward Weston, Gustave Baumann, John Sloan, Will Shuster, Ansel
.Adams and many more. Through Mable Dodge Luhan, Knee was introduced to Georgia O'Keeffe
when she arrived in N.M., and he took photographs of a number of her paintings, as he did for for other well known artists.

Past museum exhibitions and current holders of Ernest Knee works.

1 The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN
2 George Eastman House, Rochester New York.
3 Museum of Modern Art, New York NY.
4 Center For Creative Photography, Tucson AZ.
5 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
6 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA.
7 California Museum of Photography, Riverside CA.
8 Princeton University of Art, Princeton NJ.
9 The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN.
10 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas.
11 Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Kansas.

12 University of Louisville Photo Archives, KY.
13 New Orleans Museum of Art New Orlea
14 Madison Art Center, Madison WI.
15 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI
16 University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, OK.
17 Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK.
18 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM.
19 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM.
20 Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe NM.
21 The Panhandel Plains Museum, Canyon Texas.

Look for the book, Ernest Knee in New Mexico, published by the Museum of New Mexico press.

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