Discipline: Visual Art

Fredrich Cantor

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980
Fredrich Cantor (1944–2010) was a painter and photographer who produced black-and-white and color images of people and landscapes. He was born in New York and studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1962-64, 1966-67), at San Francisco Art Institute (1966), at Cooper Union in New York City (1969) and at Art Students' League in Woodstock, New York (1962, 1963). He photographed individuals such as Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Bette Davis, and Harrison Ford for newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stone.

Studios

Putnam

Fredrich Cantor 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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