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Hurrell, George
American, 1904-1992
George Hurrell was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1904. He studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1920s, moving on to California where he was commissioned to photograph artists working in Laguna Beach. Hurrell soon discovered that he could make a living taking portraits, and by the 1930s he was photographing Hollywood’s major movie stars. His photographs, showcased at museums throughout the world and in numerous publications, are also represented in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the International Center for Photography, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among many others.
Austrian-American, 1899-1968