The Phillips Collection Announces Recent Acquisitions that Enrich Photography Holdings and Diversify Collection
August 8, 2023
WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection announces recent acquisitions, including major works that enrich growing areas of the museum’s collection with a significant emphasis on photography. Through multiple gifts, more than 60 photographs by artists including Frank Stewart, Aaron Siskind, Zanele Muholi, and more have entered the collection. In addition, works by artists including Sanford Biggers, Linling Lu, and Marta Pérez García strengthen existing holdings to provide more comprehensive narratives of modern and contemporary art.
...The museum’s first acquisition of Lu’s work also marks an important milestone for the Phillips: One Hundred Melodies of Solitude No.99 (2020) is the first artwork by a Chinese-born American woman artist to enter the collection. As seen in her recentIntersections project Soundwaves, Lu frequently draws inspiration from elements of classical music; her ongoing series One Hundred Melodies of Solitude visualizes soundwaves into vividly colored spatial configurations.
