Discipline: Visual Art

Harriet Gans

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Scarsdale, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988

Harriet Gans (1938-1994), a photographer who showed her work in New York galleries and museums. A native of Manhattan, Gans was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and held a master's in psychology from Columbia University. She was a professor of photography at Pace University.

Gans had solo exhibitions at the Julie Saul and Pindar Galleries in New York. She contributed studies of flowers to the In Bloom Traveling Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1990. She was a regular contributor to magazines and The New York Times.

Studios

Putnam

Harriet Gans worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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