Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Sally Gall

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989, 1990

Sally Gall was born in Washington, DC in 1956. After attending Reed College and receiving a B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, she settled in Houston, Texas. In 1987, Gall moved to New York. Until recently, she worked solely in black and white, using nature as her subject. She has been the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency and is included in a number of public and private collections, notably the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Guggenheim, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Studios

Putnam

Sally Gall 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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