From Ansel Adams to Richard Misrach, each presents a unique look at the natural world, and are in Artnet Auctions' Important ...

The late photographer Peter Beard was a lot of things—a charmer, a scenester, a world-class beauty, a bigot, a brute, possibly one of the most influential artists of his era, and a terrific subject ...

Born in New York, NY, raised in New York, Alabama, and Long Island, Peter Beard kept diaries at an early age Peter entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but soon switched to art history, ...

19 x 13 in. (48.3 x 33 cm.) Peter Beard grew up in an environment that venerated art and nature. His family, heirs to the Great Northern Railway Company, settled in Montauk, New York in the late 19th ...

A dishy biography of the photographer and playboy Peter Beard never fully explains why so many in the artist’s circle overlooked so much bad behavior. By Alexandra Jacobs New autobiographies from ...