Artist

Anthony Hernandez

born Los Angeles, CA 1947
Also known as
  • Anthony Louis Hernandez
Born
Los Angeles, California, United States
Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, 1947. Currently resides in Los Angeles. Hernandez received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1975, 1978 and 1980. He was artist-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1986 and at Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming, in 1989. He has had solo exhibitions at the Burden Gallery, New York, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University (1985), and The Opsis Foundation, New York City (1990).

Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Elsie Motz Lowdon, Uncle William, ca. 1927, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan, 1984.12.4
Uncle William
Artist
Dateca. 1927
watercolor on ivory
Not on view
Elsie Motz Lowdon, Perdita, 1915, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan, 1984.12.1
Perdita
Artist
Date1915
watercolor on ivory
Not on view
Elsie Motz Lowdon, Marjorie Staiars, 1923, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan, 1984.12.3
Marjorie Staiars
Artist
Date1923
watercolor on ivory
Not on view
Elsie Motz Lowdon, Nude with Goldfish, ca. 1916, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan, 1984.12.2
Nude with Goldfish
Artist
Dateca. 1916
watercolor on ivory
Not on view

Exhibitions

Photograph of children playing in the water from a fire hydrant by Hiram Maristany
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
May 11, 2017–August 5, 2017
Smithsonian American Art Museum
America’s urban streets have long inspired documentary photographers. After World War II, populations shifted from the city to the suburbs and newly built highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, leaving isolated pockets within major urban centers.